contracts are a port of entry into stable employment positions, 23% report ambiguous or mixed findings, and the remaining 45 …

lower use of temporary contracts at the threshold after the reform. Our study highlights the counter-intuitive and … seeking to avoid the higher costs of EPL by means of temporary contracts. …

Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote employment, particularly in recessions or when … permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to vary some of the legal parameters of FTCs over the business cycle … conversions to permanent contracts drop by 20%. Worker churning is reduced significantly, as mobility of eligible fixed …

January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of successive fixed-term (temporary) labor contracts …

In the standard macroeconomic search and matching model of the labor market, there is a tight link between the … tight link is at odds with the empirical literature. We show that a two-sided model of labor market search where the … households’ work incentives and the firms’ employment incentives within the search process. …

Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that …

We reassess the role of vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model. In the absence of …