Since the 1990s, there has been a rapid increase in the proportion of temporary workers in the Japanese workforce. This paper empirically explores a linkage between the shift from permanent to temporary workers in the Japanese manufacturing sector and economic globalization, using various...

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...

This paper analyses how and to which degree the Danish flexicurity concept and its various elements achieve the renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate...