To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to a substantially weaker labour market attachment for...

A range of evidence suggests that non-standard jobs, including fixed-term and other temporary jobs such as casual jobs, pay lower wages than more standard, permanent jobs, even after controlling for differences in worker and job characteristics. A recent literature suggests this is also the case...

Ein flexibler Arbeitsmarkt kann nicht nur den Strukturwandel oder exogene Schocks besser verarbeiten, er hat auch eine soziale Dimension: Wenn es Arbeitsuchenden schnell gelingt, eine neue Beschäftigung zu finden, muss sich der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes nicht als stark negativ empfundener...

Ein flexibler Arbeitsmarkt kann nicht nur den Strukturwandel oder exogene Schocks besser verarbeiten, er hat auch eine soziale Dimension: Wenn es Arbeitsuchenden schnell gelingt, eine neue Beschäftigung zu finden, muss sich der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes nicht als stark negativ empfundener...

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...