Abgedruckt sind die überarbeiteten Vorträge des 16. gemeinsamen Seminars der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Universitäten Freiburg i. Br. und Nagoya. Die Veranstaltung fand im September/Oktober 1996 in Freiburg statt. Inhalt: Theodor J. Dams: Adjustment Problems for the Rural Labor Market within the Transformation Process of East Germany ("Neue Bundesländer") (9-36); Bernhard Friedmann: Labour Market Problems in the European Union (37-47); Shimono Keiko: Low Unemployment Rate and Female Labour Supply in Japan (49-61); Yuko Arayama: Choice to not be Employed in Intact Families: Interaction Between Male and Female Household Members and the Determination of Working or not Working, of Working Hours, and Working Days (63-74); Takashi Matsugi: Recent Aspects of the Japanese Labor Market in a Changing Economic Structure (75-87); Alois Oberhauser: A Pro-cyclical Fiscal Policy which Increases Unemployment: A Consequence of an Individual Economic Orientation (89-99), Michael Pflüger / Alexander Spermann: Ecological Tax Reform - A Route to More Employment? (101-121); Harald Nitsch: Exchange Rate Impacts on Japanese Labor Input (123-141); Taichi Yamamoto: A Comparative Study between Migratory Manpower Pressures by Industrial Hollowing-out in Japan and Economic Opening-up in Hungary (143-159); Yoichi Nishijima: Standardization of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. Globalization of the Economy and Improvement of Worker's Welfare (161-169); Günter Müller / Tim Bussiek: The Information Highway and the Future of Work (171-189); Manfred Kurz: Working Time and Work Location Flexibility - the Example of IBM Germany (191-201); Tamiki Kishida: Labor Market and Work Organization (203-211).