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 …

. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the … on employment growth. Moreover, the effects tend to be concentrated amongst non-affiliated firms. The lack of …

until recently.We find that both formal employment and wage bills in the relevant sector fall, on average, by 2% – and by 25 …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the …

This paper presents a new model of firms' decisions on training in a context of potential worker mobility. Such worker … mobility can be influenced by employers coordination, namely through the operation of no-poach agreements and employers …' training levels. We find that workers' mobility between firms in the same EA is considerably lower than mobility between …

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 …

between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is …

significant effects on employment status in the subsequent year, worker churning is reduced significantly, as mobility of eligible …Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote hirings and employment, particularly in recessions or …