Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously...

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,...

It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers have to accept high pay penalties. However, remarkably little is known about the remuneration of workers who are frequently employed in this sector or who are employed for a substantial length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set,...

In dieser Stellungnahme äußert sich das IAB zu den Anträgen der Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke: "Gute Arbeit und eine sanktionsfreie Mindestsicherung statt Hartz IV" (Bundestagsdrucksache 18/3549) und "Sanktionen bei Hartz IV und Leistungseinschränkungen bei der Sozialhilfe abschaffen"...

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

In seiner Stellungnahme zu den Anträgen der SPD-Fraktion und der Fraktion Die Linke zu der am 1. Mai 2011 in Kraft tretenden Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit in der Europäischen Union geht das IAB im ersten Teil auf die Folgen der asymmetrischen Anwendung der Übergangsfristen, das Problem der...