Flexible Arbeitsformen gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung (vgl. z.B. Birchmeier 2002 sowieauch Graf/Henneberger/Schmid 2000). Die Frage, die in diesem Kontext unmittelbar auftaucht,ist, ob die zunehmende Flexibilisierung der Vertragsformen eine schleichende Abkehr vom Normalarbeitsverhältnis...

Der Anteil der Zeitarbeitnehmer an allen Beschäftigten hat sich in den meisten OECD-Ländernwährend der 90er Jahre mehr als verdoppelt. Flexible Arbeitsformen gewinnen jedoch auch inder Schweiz, deren Arbeitsmärkte sich traditionell durch eine vergleichsweise hohe Flexibilitätund...

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probabilitythat employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. Thejob finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed jobseekers, and this...

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we evaluate empirically the relationship between...

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles ofcounselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each otherleading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to theirclients and satisfying their demands...

Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...

This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment officesand employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. Thisanalysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combinedwith an extensive survey of...

We present a new approach to estimating health gains from treatments by asking respondentsto directly compare the ‘before’ and ‘after’ treatment health states in the time trade-off (TTO)framework. We found that responses to these direct comparisons were much more likely tocapture a...