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This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
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This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318677
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
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employment, low youth and female unemployment, flexibility, and a low share of the "working poor", all of which can beneficially …
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und sozial abgekoppelt, die Gesamtgesellschaft verunsichert. Deutschland befindet sich mitten in der dramatisch …
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short-term unemployment spells which are normally unavailable in survey data due to its design. However, the measurement of … unemployment differs in both types of datasets. The resulting gap between total unemployment and registered unemployment is not … Social Security administrative data. I identify unemployed workers who are not receiving unemployment benefits, using …
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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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goal of the paper is to evaluate the labor markets rigidities hypothesis. Although greater wage flexibility probably …
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Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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