Flexibility in labour markets / edited by Roger Tarling.

Based on papers presented at the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation conferences held in Modena, Italy and Oslo, Sweden.

Includes bibliographical references.

The level, structure and flexibility of costs / Roger Tarling and Frank Wilkinson -- Segmentation, employment structures and productive structures / François Michon -- Flexibility of labour costs in non-union firms / Jill Rubery -- Working hours and workforce divisions / Elizabeth Garnsey -- Mobilization networks and strategies in the labour market / Jean-Paul de Gaudemar -- Assignment of women workers to jobs and company strategies in France / Catherine Dutoya and Annie Gauvin -- Industrial structures, employment trends and the economic crisis : the case of France and Japan in the 1970s / H. Nohara and Jean-Jacques Silvestre -- The institutional system, labour market and segmentation in Hungary / Gabor Kertesi and Gyorgy Sziraczki.

The impact of privatization on the United Kingdom local government labour market / Jill Walker and Roger Moore -- New forms of flexible utilization of labour : part-time and contract work / Rainer Dombois and Martin Osterland -- Policies of workforce reduction and labour market structures in the American and German automobile industry / Werner Sengenberger and Ch. Kohler -- Labour market segmentation and workers' careers : the case of the Italian knitwear industry / Giovanni Solinas -- Systems of flexible working in the Italian steel industry / Paola Villa.