policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …

behavior of firms and labor unions when firms threaten to use temporary agency employment in the bargaining process, 2) to … temporary agency employment to dampen the wage claims of labor unions. Furthermore, the model discusses how labor unions … agency employment in terms of their utility, firms gain from increasing profits and an extended employment level per firm. If …

challenge in Germany and other European countries. Despite the current improvement of the labor market situation and decreasing … rates in Germany, unemployment is still one of the greatest social problems today. As the unemployment is largely caused by … separate papers, the first four investigate the effectiveness of active labor market policy in Germany using various estimation …