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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law
Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...
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Determinants of Using Fixed-term Contracts in the Egyptian Labor Market: Empirical Evidence from Manufacturing Firms Using World Bank Firm-Level Data for Egypt
Abdelgouad, Ahmed Fayez - 2014
Based on dual labor market theory, fixed-term contracts (FTCs) as an important feature of labor market flexibility were analyzed to test the following hypothesis: Firms in the manufacturing sector in Egypt use FTCs to adjust the level of employment to the profit maximizing level in case of...
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Arbeitsmarkt- und geschlechtsdifferenzielle Einflussfaktoren fuer die Ausuebung einer geringfuegigen Nebenbeschaeftigung (The influence of labour market and gender-related factors on marginal employment)
Schmidt, Tanja; Voss, Dorothea - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 36-57
des Arbeitsmarktgeschehens in Deutschland. (With the increase in marginal employment, questions remain as to the …
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Labour Market Transitions and Employment Regimes: Evidence on the Flexibility-Security Nexus in Transitional Labour Markets
Muffels, Ruud; Wilthagen, Ton; Heuvel, Nick van den - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
This paper deals with the question whether the concept of transitional labour market(TLM) might be useful to formulate hypotheses about the relationship between the size and nature of labour market transitions and the performance of employment regimes. The paper starts from the idea that the TLM...
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Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy
Addabbo, Tindara (contributor);  … - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro - AIEL
The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low participation rates (particularly...
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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing …
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Functional Changes in the Trade Unions. From Intermediary to Fractal Organization?
Doerre, Klaus - In: International Journal of Action Research 7 (2011) 1, pp. 8-48
This contribution deals with developments in German Trade Unionism since the world economic crisis of 2008/09. Internationally, the crisis management of the German metalworker’s union IG Metall is held in high esteem and regarded as a role model. It seems as if social integrative corporatism...
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Zwanzig Jahre Industrielle Beziehungen – Rueckblick und Bilanz (Twenty years Industrielle Beziehungen – Looking Back and Taking Stock)
Mueller-Jentsch, Walther - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 20 (2013) 4, pp. 258-284
Der Beitrag praesentiert in drei Teilen eine Bilanz von zwanzig Jahren. Zunaechst werden Zielsetzung und Inhalte der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ resuemiert, danach die Entwicklungen in der wissenschaftlichen Profession des Objektbereichs Industrielle Beziehungen aufgezeigt und...
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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour market reforms promoting, in particular, non-standard forms of … contributed to the expansion of overall labour market inclusion and job growth in Germany and that at least some forms of non …
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Do Developing Countries Possess any Built-in Mechanism that Copes with External Terms-of-trade Shocks?
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This theoretical note shows that developing countries possess an inherent shock-absorbing mechanism that stems from their peculiar institutional characteristics that can lessen the gravity of detrimental welfare consequence of exogenous terms-of-trade disturbances in terms of a two-sector,...
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