As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … industry level information on industries? outsourcing activities from input-output tables. By doing so we can arguably overcome … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the …

This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about …

from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

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 …

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. …

This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross …