, while the reallocation of employment away from less polarized industries towards more highly polarized industries also … find that Chinese import competition contributed to the decline of employment in the less polarized manufacturing …

Fixed-term contracts have become a major form of employment in Europe. Available evidence about whether temporary jobs … are a stepping stone to a permanent employment or are a dead end is mixed. The usefulness of these jobs depends on the … institutional and economic environment. Fixed-term contracts can be a pathway from unemployment to employment, but their potential …