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 estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Ourestablishment level data displays an … extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels arelargely constant throughout our sample... …

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 …

In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage … the closing of existing firms, to the dramatic decline of total employment and increase of the unemployment rate. We also … channels that may have amplified the employment response to the great recession: the credit channel, the wage rigidity channel …

Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and … in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment − employment with fixed …

This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Our establishment level data displays … an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels are largely constant throughout our sample. This can be due to …