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 …

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 …

length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set, we estimate the effects of the intensity of agency employment on the … to accept a sizeable wage disadvantage at first, indicating that temporary agency employment might stigmatise workers …. However, agency employment does not seem to leave a long-lasting scar …

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working … from a marked wage decline before entering the temporary help sector. Nevertheless, temporary agency employment does not …

–77% of the marginal product of labour. Further, we find lower elasticities for recruits hired from non-employment as well as …

wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …