All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...

In almost all European countries there is a wide and growing gap between the goals of national immigration policy and its actual outcomes. The main reason for the failure of national migration policies is the loss of effective competence to control today's migration flows on a national level....

The notion of flexicurity was introduced in the late 1990s. It promotes the idea of compensation of deregulation of labour markets (= flexibilization) by advantages in employment and social security, in particularly for flexibly employed (other than permanent full-time, called also atypically...

The emergence of 'new self-employment' presents a challenge to political actors both in the individual European countries and at the EU level. The new selfemployed are exposed to the same social risks as dependent employees, but they generally enjoy fewer social and labour rights. How are social...

Die Öffnung der industriellen Beziehungen für Anforderungen des Umweltschutzes ist auf europäischer und internationaler Ebene bisher nur ansatzweise und in sehr unterschiedlichem Ausmaß erfolgt. Dies geschieht teils durch die Erweiterung des Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutzes um...

Nach Jahren der politischen Auseinandersetzung einigten sich 2018 Europäisches Parlament (EP) und Europäischer Rat auf eine Novellierung der Entsenderichtlinie von 1996. Angesichts der grundlegenden Interessendifferenzen beim Thema Arbeitnehmerentsendung muss dieses Ereignis speziell vor dem...