A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while …

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 …

per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …

analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job satisfaction and job mobility. We find that overeducation and … previous cross-section results and suggesting the presence of considerable unobserved heterogeneity which varies by gender …

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to … gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence … can still explain a relatively large proportion of the wage gap. We investigate whether gender differences relating to job …

-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is atransitory phenomenon... …

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 …