Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing …

countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …

Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the industry level, distinguishing outsourcing by broad region …

growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall … to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and … logistics services in administrative data using the universe of social security records in Germany. We document a dramatic …

measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all … between outsourcing and plant closings is predominantly negative, albeit poorly determined …