This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...

Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the...

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...

Der 2. Senat des BAG hat in einer neuen Entscheidung klargestellt, dass Arbeitsplätze von vorübergehend (wegen Urlaub, Krankheit usw.) abwesenden Mitarbeitern nicht als "freie" Arbeitsplätze den zur betriebsbedingten Kündigung anstehenden Stammarbeitnehmern zu deren Weiterbeschäftigung...