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Atypical Work and Employment Regulations: A Comparison of Right-to-Work to Closed-Shop States

Surfield, Christopher; Welch, William - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Atypical work forms – such as independent contracting, on-call, or temporary work – have been criticized as providing employment that is more precarious than that offered by regular (open-ended) employment. One of the concerns attached to these work forms is that they allow employers to...

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Unemployment durations after temporary work: Evidence for Great Britain and Germany

Dekker, Ronald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, we hypothesize that workers who had a temporary contract before the spell of unemployment will experience...

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The Impact of Temporary Employment on Labour Productivity: Evidence from an Industry-Level Panel of EU Countries

Lisi, Domenico - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of less stringent Employment Protection...

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Cross-Sectors Skill Intensity, Productivity and Temporary Employment

Lisi, Domenico; Malo, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this article, we study the impact of temporary employment (TE) on productivity and, in particular, we wonder if it differs according to sectors skill intensity. Our data set is an ad-hoc industry-level panel of European countries, which allows to deal with endogeneity problems. Our main...

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Involuntary non-standard employment: evidence from Italian regions

De Vita, Glauco; Livanos, Ilias; Salotti, Simone - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Using European Union Labour Force Survey data on over 2.5 million workers in Italian regions for the period 1999-2010, we investigate the determinants of involuntary non-standard (temporary and part-time) employment (INE). We find that regional differences significantly affect the probability of...

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Different paths towards Flexibility, Deregulated employment protection or temporary employment?

Chung, Heejung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

There are numerous debates on the need to increase flexibility through deregulation of employment protection. Many believe it is essential in generating employment but it is also believed to generate �socially unacceptable� flexible jobs. However, recent studies point to strict regulations...

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Labour market transition in Italy: an empirical investigation

Bosio, Giulio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

social security archives for the years 1992-2002. I apply a parametric and semi-parametric continuous time duration model to … investigate whether the recent reform has changed the pattern of duration dependence in temporary employment duration. The main … findings emphasize how the Treu package has substantially reduced the positive duration dependence in the hazard rate of moving …

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Search Duration and Intermediate, Transitional Work

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of transitional work on the duration of an individual's search spell …

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Promoting Permanent Employment: Lessons from Spain

Mendez, Ildefonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper presents the first joint evaluation of the two major labour market reforms implemented in Spain to foster permanent employment in 1994 and 1997. The 1994 reform restored the principle of causality in the application of temporary contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent...

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Temporary employment and wage gap with permanent jobs: evidence from quantile regression

Bosio, Giulio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Previous research on wage penalty for temporary workers has focused on the conditional mean model. This paper uses micro data from the 2006 wave of the Survey of Italian Households’ Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers across the whole wage...

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