Compared to permanent employment contracts, fixed-term contracts are less attractive. However, a recent IAB study shows that fixed-term contracts are not necessarily disadvantageous, even if permanent contracts are preferable from the employees' point of view. The decisive factors are less...

Befristete Arbeitsverträge gelten im Vergleich zu unbefristeten Verträgen als weniger attraktiv. Eine aktuelle IABStudie zeigt jedoch, dass sich befristete Verträge nicht unbedingt nachteilig auswirken müssen, wenngleich unbefristete Verträge aus Sicht der Beschäftigten vorzuziehen sind....

In konzentrierten Arbeitsmärkten weisen Betriebe hohe Marktanteile bei der Rekrutierung von Arbeitskräften auf und können über eine marktbeherrschende Stellung verfügen. Internationale Studien zeigen, dass eine höhere Arbeitsmarktkonzentration zu niedrigeren Löhnen und schlechteren...

Compared to permanent employment contracts, fixed-term contracts are less attractive. However, a recent IAB study shows that fixed-term contracts are not necessarily disadvantageous, even if permanent contracts are preferable from the employees' point of view. The decisive factors are less...

While extensive research on unemployment insurance (UI) has examined how benefits affect workers' job search, little is known about how eligibility conditions shape firms' hiring decisions. These conditions, often requiring a minimum work history, affect the value workers place on contracts...

This paper evaluates a hiring subsidy for lower-educated youths in Flanders (Belgium) that reduced labour costs by approximately 13% for a period of two years, starting in 2016. Using a donut Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no evidence that the subsidy improved the job finding rate of...

This paper examines how trade liberalization-induced labor demand shocks affect wages and non-wage working conditions. Using exogenous trade shocks from EU enlargement and worker-level data, we find that export liberalization increases temporary contracts and atypical work schedules,...

In recent years, China's labour market has seen a significant rise of the new forms of employment, which differs in scale, type, and function compared to the developed economies. This study focuses on four emerging forms of the new employment patterns in China, including app-based gig work,...

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3% in favor of in-house workers, but the gap is negative in more than 25% of establishment...

This study investigates in a European perspective the phenomenon of recalls, in which previously laid off or furloughed employees are rehired by the same employer. It specifically examines the French labour market, notable for its pronounced degree of contractual dualism. A novel theoretical...

This study examines the association between investments in automation technologies and employment outcomes at the firm level, utilizing a panel dataset of about 10,450 Italian firms. Focusing on the proliferation of non-standard, flexible labor contracts introduced by labor market reforms in the...

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a reform introduced in Italy in 2018 (Decreto Dignità), which increased the rigidity of employment protection legislation (EPL) of temporary contracts, rolling back previous policies, to reduce job instability. We use longitudinal labour force data from...

Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3%, but the gap is negative in more than 25% of establishment × occupation cells. We...

Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...

While previous research on head coach dismissals finds that team performance and managerial characteristics impact employment survival, these studies ignore the impact of contract modifications. Using an accelerated failure time survival model with hand-collected college head football coach...

Seit der wirtschaftlichen Boomphase in der zweiten Hälfte des letzten Jahrzehnts geht der Anteil befristet begonnener Beschäftigungsverhältnisse zurück. Nach den Turbulenzen der Corona-Krise hat sich dieser Sinkflug zwar fortgesetzt, dennoch blieben die Befristungsquoten bei den...

This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core-periphery hypothesis predicts that permanent workers should have...

Standard screening and core-periphery theories claim that temporary employment does not undermine the quality of permanent jobs. In contrast, organizational approaches suggest that firms use temporary contracts to pursue low-road employment strategies, which involve the creation of cheap and low...

We study the causal effect of temporary employment on fertility and infant health outcomes by exploiting exogenous variation in the availability of temporary contracts. The Spanish 1984 reform led to an extensive liberalisation in the use of fix-term contracts, increasing job insecurity and...

Since the 1980s, most of the advanced economies have massively ‘flexibilized’ their labour markets by reducing protection against layoffs or introducing temporary and flexible contractual forms. Meanwhile, a stylized fact of economic theory has come undone, namely the stability of the wage...

Este documento evalúa el impacto de un programa de capacitaciones otorgado de manera aleatoria a beneficiarios del programa de empleo temporal Trabaja Perú (TP). Este experimento ofrece la oportunidad de examinar el impacto de la intervención dirigida hacia mujeres vulnerables en un contexto...

Using microdata from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Population Census, this paper explores how spatial characteristics are correlated with temporary employment outcomes for Canada's immigrant population. Results from ordinary least square regression models suggest that census...

Standard screening and core-periphery theories claim that temporary employment does not undermine the quality of permanent jobs. In contrast, organizational approaches suggest that firms use temporary contracts to pursue low-road employment strategies, which involve the creation of cheap and low...

In the early 2000s, Poland's unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased noticeably and the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4% in 2021. The labor force participation of older workers increased following reforms aimed at prolonging careers. However,...

The aim of this article is to investigate two external flexible forms of employment-the leasing of workers through Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs) and the contracted workers employed through Business Service Providers (contractors). Undoubtedly, these two forms of employment are complex and often...