There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

The hedonic treadmill model for subjective well-being was subject to several recent empirical analyses based on individual panel data. Most of this adaptation literature is concentrated on how life events affect measures oflife satisfaction and happiness, whereas adaptation processes of domain...

This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships and the policy issues they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work.

Dieses Papier fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse einer Studie zusammen, die von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung finanziert und von April 2003 bis Mai 2005 gemeinsam von Tobias Hagen und dem Verfasser am Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim erarbeitet wurde. Die Gesamtstudie...

Deutschland hatte, wie viele andere europäische Staaten, zwischen 2000 und 2008 eine Zunahme des Arbeitskräfteangebotes zu verzeichnen. Getrieben wurde diese Entwicklung durch die weitere Steigerung der Erwerbsbeteiligung vornehmlich der Älteren. Besonders stark zugenommen hat die...

Temporary agency work (TAW) is believed to facilitate the matching between firms and on-the-job searchers. This leads to shortening of the unemployment and job search duration. On the other hand, firms that hire temporary workers have less incentive to train them, which makes it difficult for...

The integration of migrant women and youth into the labour market depends upon institutional ramifications (in particular the immigration regime, the welfare model and the education system), on supply factors (in particular the educational attainment level and occupational skills, language...