"Race-to-the-bottom" deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern is...

“Race-to-the-bottom” deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern...

This paper reviews the development of temporary agency work after its deregulation in the context of the so-called Hartz reforms in Germany. The new role of agency work emerges from its enormous growth after deregulation, the intense use of agency work by big stock-listed companies and upcoming...

Dustmann/ Fitzenberger/ Schönberg/ Spitz-Oener (2014) praise the flexibility of German labour market institutions for the German turn-around from "Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar": The more decentralized, firm-specific wage-setting process since the mid-1990s increased wage inequality...

Der Aufschwung hat den Arbeitsmarkt erreicht. An Stelle der Beschäftigtenzahl steigt aber bisher hauptsächlich die Zahl der geleisteten Arbeitsstunden. Neue Stellen wurden bisher jedoch nicht in dem Ausmaß wie im vorangegangenen Zyklus geschaffen. Die Forscher des IMK ziehen aus Ihrem...

Der Aufschwung hat den Arbeitsmarkt erreicht. An Stelle der Beschäftigtenzahl steigt aber bisher hauptsächlich die Zahl der geleisteten Arbeitsstunden. Neue Stellen wurden bisher jedoch nicht in dem Ausmaß wie im vorangegangenen Zyklus geschaffen. Die Forscher des IMK ziehen aus Ihrem...