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Flexible Arbeitswelten: Eine Bestandsaufnahme
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Der Arbeitsmarkt und die Arbeitswelt in Deutschland befinden sich in einem schon länger andauernden Veränderungsprozess … einer Entgrenzung der Arbeit gesprochen werden kann, welche Formen der Entgrenzung oder Flexibilisierung von großer oder …, der in der öffentlichen und fachlichen Diskussion gern mit dem Begriff einer zunehmenden "Flexibilisierung" oder …
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Der Wandel der Erwerbsformen in Deutschland
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den Wandel der Erwerbsformen in Deutschland und zeigt, dass atypische Beschäftigung … genannte Normalarbeitsverhältnis nach wie vor die bei weitem am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt dominante Erwerbsform – aber auch dort … haben verschiedene Formen der Flexibilisierung Raum gegriffen. Insgesamt ist die Vielfalt der Erwerbs- und Arbeitsformen in …
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Job Quality in Segmented Labor Markets: The Israeli Case
Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...
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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
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Vom kranken Mann zum Vorbild Europas: Kann Deutschlands Arbeitsmarkt noch vom Ausland lernen?
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In den letzten zwanzig Jahren hat die Bedeutung internationaler Vergleiche für die Bewertung der Arbeitsmarkt- und … ausländischen Erfahrungen für die Gestaltung von Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialstaatsreformen gelernt werden kann. Skepsis ist angebracht …. Auch legt der Blick auf jüngste internationale Arbeitsmarktentwicklungen Zurückhaltung nahe: Galt Deutschland noch Anfang …
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Dual Labour Markets at Work: The Impact of Employers' Use of Temporary Agency Work on Regular Workers' Job Stability
Hirsch, Boris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Fitting duration models on an inflow sample of jobs in Germany starting in 2002-2010, this paper investigates the impact of employers' use of temporary agency work on regular workers' job stability. In line with dual labour market theory, I find that non-temp jobs are significantly more stable...
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009–10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work contracts is not uniform across sectors, size and...
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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