employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core … effects, evidence supports the core-periphery hypothesis for temporary agency work but not for fixed-term contracts. …

on fixed-term contracts. This paper reconstructs the causes and dynamics of this development, which began in the 1970s … scope for fixed-term employment over the years, changed with time. In the 1970s and 1980s, fixed-term contracts were … were employed only on fixed-term contracts, the easier it became to close obsolete departments and institutes, establish …