Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...

Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health...

The effects of working for a Temporary Help Agency (THA) on low-skilled workers’ transition rates to alternative states are examined using Spanish administrative data. Our approach is based on the estimation of competing risk discrete time duration models with multiple spells, and reveals the...