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 …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …

This paper investigates whether non-base compensation contributes to the gender pay gap. In wage decompositions, we … distribution. Our findings suggest that gender differences in bonuses are an important contributor to the gender pay gap …

gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …

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 …

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular … employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated … innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive shock to temporary agency employment increases overall employment, but …

mainly from reduced transitions into non-employment suggesting that non-temp workers are safeguarded against involuntary job …

In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a …-parametric propensity score matching approach, we find that the unexplained gender pay gap for young workers is substantially lower in large …

men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One … implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …