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,...