Marktnahe Beschäftigungsformen - z.B. die Arbeitnehmerüberlassung, die befristete Beschäftigung oder Formen der abhängigen Beschäftigung - haben national wie international an Bedeutung zugenommen. Innerhalb von Beschäftigungssystemen werden sie als flexible Alternativen im Vergleich zum...

The aim of this research was to identify determinants of the employment protection legislation reforms in the global perspective. The study was based on the Labor Freedom index published by the Heritage Foundation, which allowed to include 179 countries in the research that were observed in the...

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing...