"The objective of this paper is to present a short survey of our new research results to mobility and stability of employment on a micro level. This area of conflict is analyzed from an individual and a firm's perspective, taking institutional issues into account. More than previous studies, we...

"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...

"The protean and boundaryless career attitudes have gained special attention during the past years. A protean career attitude implies that a person strives towards a developmental progression and self-fulfillment; a boundaryless career attitude is characterized by a high physical and/or...

"The study examined the relationship between employees' ability to achieve subjective success and their work attitudes. Four dimensions of subjective success were measured: fulfilling work, financial rewards, recognition, and authority. Hierarchical regression models predicting job satisfaction,...

"Career success has hitherto been conceptualized in ways that make its operationalization difficult to distinguish from other properties of the person, such as job satisfaction or remuneration. We argue that this is because these conventional operationalizations neglect the 'career' dimension of...

"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

"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...