reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …

Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various … on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for integrating jobseekers into non-subsidised employment. By … contracting out employment services, the PES seeks to exploit efficiency gains characteristic of enterprises that compete in quasi …

Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the … general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency employment is …