The paper deals with temporary employment on the Russian labour market. The main focus is the gender differences of determinants for being temporary employed in Russia. The puzzle here is that in many European countries these are women who are most likely to have temporary work, but in Russia we...

<Para ID="Par1">There is little evidence as to the effectiveness of incentives for the conversion of fixed-term contracts into permanent jobs. We aim at filling this gap by studying a recent Italian program which provides benefits for employers who convert contracts for workers in specific demographic groups...</para>

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

The goal of this research is to analyze developments in employment and employment characteristics during the current crisis in Croatia. The main findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The primary (aggregate) mode of adjustment to the crisis was a decline in employment. There are, however,...

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...

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...

This paper shows that flexible jobs are very common among graduates entering the Dutch labour market, and that these jobs are generally less attractive relative to permanent jobs. Our main conclusion is that the selection of recent graduates into either permanent or flexible jobs in the...

A politikai rendszerváltozást követő gazdasági átalakulás Magyarországon a nagyvállalati belső munkaerőpiacok felbomlását-visszaszorulását s a foglalkozási típusú munkaerőpiacok térnyerését eredményezte. A munkaerőpiac ugyanakkor feltűnően zárttá, rugalmatlanná...

A bérmunkázását az 1970-es évek gyakorlata alapján hosszú ideig negatív megítélés övezte. A leggyakoribb kritikai észrevételek közé tartozott a bérmunkavállalók egyoldalú függése, a technikaátadás alacsony szintje és a bérmunkázók elszigeteltsége a gazdaság...

The notion of regular, full-time employment as one of the defining features of the U.S. economy has been called into question in recent years by the apparent growth of alternative or "nonstandard" arrangements - part-time work, temporary help, independent contracting, and other arrangements....