"In recent years temporary agency employment has become a very dynamically growing form of employment in the German labour market. Due to the current development, many scientific papers have been published. However, it is not possible to combine previous quantitative research into several...

"In recent years temporary agency employment has become a very dynamically growing form of employment in the German labour market. Due to the current development, many scientific papers have been published. However, it is not possible to combine previous quantitative research into several...

Befristete Arbeitsverhältnisse waren schon öfter Gegenstand arbeitsrechtlicher Abhandlungen. Nicht untersucht wurde jedoch bisher die Verbreitung dieser Verträge. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag soll deshalb ein Bereich näher behandelt werden, in dem vergleichsweise genaue Zahlen über die...

"This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers' job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference- in-difference and matching approach and...

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen von 2003 bis 2005 haben entscheidend zu einer bemerkenswerten Trendumkehr auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt beigetragen und damit auch einen wichtigen Beitrag geleistet, das Land besser auf die Konsequenzen des bevorstehenden demografischen Wandels vorzubereiten. Die...

"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...

"In this paper we address the question as to whether and to what extent workers in atypical employment are affected by low wages (below two-thirds of the hourly median wage). Our analysis is based on quantitative data (using the GSOEP) and on qualitative interviews at establishment level in...

Ein flexibler Arbeitsmarkt kann nicht nur den Strukturwandel oder exogene Schocks besser verarbeiten, er hat auch eine soziale Dimension: Wenn es Arbeitsuchenden schnell gelingt, eine neue Beschäftigung zu finden, muss sich der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes nicht als stark negativ empfundener...

Temporary help services (THS) offer firms an additional option for flexible adjustment of employment levels. In addition, THS can facilitate new employment for both labor market entrants and job losers. This survey examines the economic significance, the changing regulatory framework, and the...