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 …

employment. Moreover, this mitigation effect is greater in industries where firms have a greater propensity to make staffing …

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 …

age and size) and worker (age, gender, education) characteristics play an important role for both gross job and worker …

on industry employment. The employment losses, which last at least 3 years, are larger when reforms are implemented … deregulation in retail distribution has no (or even positive) short-term employment effects. This discrepancy is likely driven by … the much larger employment share of small incumbents, with no margins of efficiency improvement, in retail than in network …

-negligible transitory employment losses, a result that is confirmed by complementary evidence from case studies of three recently … on cyclical conditions: the employment cost of deregulation is higher in economic downturns, negligible in good times …