Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has … dualization is the result of firms which are likely to hire full-time and long-term workforce for its core activities performed by … the core workforce while relying on more flexible forms of employment for other activities. Based on an in …

Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, the authors argue that since industrialization, Germany … the result of firms which are likely to hire full-time and long-term workforce for its core activities while relying on … more flexible forms of employment for other activities. Based on an in-depth examination of the structure of the workforce …

Germany. Our results give some support to the job matching model: individuals with a high risk of being bad matches exhibit …

Fixed-term contracts (FTCs), an important feature of the employment relationship of the peripheral workforce, are … peripheral workforce to adjust the level of employment to the profit maximising level in case of demand fluctuations. (ii) Thanks … to the utilisation of FTCs, the core workforce is less exposed to employment adjustment. Both hypotheses are supported by …