Since the beginning of the 1980s, an increase in the number of fixed-term employment contracts has been apparent in a number of free-market-oriented economies. This has been accompanied by amendments to the pertinent legislation. From the early to mid-1980s, a number of EC countries initiated...

The role of private employment agencies in job placement has increased in importance in many European countries during the last decade, but in others the public employment services still exercise a monopoly. The following paper offers an assessment of the experiences to date.

In view of high and persistent unemployment in the European industrialised countries there is growing consensus that more flexibility is needed with regard to both the legal and institutional conditions governing the labour market (external flexibility) and the management of human resources...

In 1999, “The Economist” referred to Germany with the meaningful headline “The sick man of the euro”. 15 years later, the world is talking about the “German Labour Market Miracle”. In the first part, this paper describes the characteristics of the traditional German labour market,...

Trotz der guten Arbeitsmarktlage ist die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit ein gravierendes Problem, vor allem weil sie verfestigt ist. Mehr als ein Drittel der Arbeitslosen sind dies länger als ein Jahr. Zudem gelingt es Langzeitarbeitslosen deutlich schwerer, aus der Arbeitslosigkeit heraus wieder...

In its recent World Employment and Social Outlook, the ILO published estimates of the number of jobs related to global supply chains (GSCs) for 40 countries in 1995–2013. This paper provides a detailed description of the methodology that was used for the estimation and documents the links...

From the mid-1980s until 2005 the German labour market was characterised by continuous deregulation. In the period of an improving German labour market, the German governments have since imposed measures to re-regulate the labour market in order to strengthen employees' rights. At the same time...

Betriebe haben es immer schwerer, nicht nur Fachkräfte, sondern auch Personal für einfachere Tätigkeiten zu rekrutieren. Die konjunkturelle Schwächephase infolge des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine und die damit verbundenen Preissteigerungen sowie Lieferkettenprobleme bremsen die...

Die Stellungnahme beinhaltet zum einen eine Darstellung des Minijob-Arrangements (Geltungsbereich, Krisenanfälligkeit, Risiken und Probleme). Zum anderen werden die drei Anträge bewertet, die bei der öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags am...