This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions, was prepared to assess the nature and extent of employment precariousness in the framework of EU fundamental rights and employment...

This paper reviews the development of temporary agency work after its deregulation in the context of the so-called Hartz reforms in Germany. The new role of agency work emerges from its enormous growth after deregulation, the intense use of agency work by big stock-listed companies and upcoming...

Die Sächsische Längsschnittstudie begleitet seit 1987 kontinuierlich eine Stichprobe junger Ostdeutscher des Geburtsjahrgangs 1973 auf ihrem Weg vom DDR- zum Bundesbürger. Mit mittlerweile 22 abgeschlossenen Erhebungswellen (2008) zählt die weiterhin laufende Studie zu den weltweit am...

Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...

Since the 1990s, there has been a rapid increase in the proportion of temporary workers in the Japanese workforce. This paper empirically explores a linkage between the shift from permanent to temporary workers in the Japanese manufacturing sector and economic globalization, using various...