Die Leiharbeitsbranche expandiert weiterhin mit hohen Wachstumsraten. Dafür dürfte vor allem die stufenweise Deregulierung des Leiharbeitsrechts verantwortlich sein. Leiharbeitsjobs stellen in der Regel kurze Phasen im Erwerbsverlauf dar. So waren etwa im Jahr 2003 nur 13 Prozent der...

Migration muss nicht zu sinkenden Löhnen und steigender Arbeitslosigkeit führen. In Deutschland gewinnen einheimische Arbeitskräfte langfristig sogar durch Zuwanderung, während die bereits im Land lebenden Ausländer verlieren. Das zeigt ein neuer Ansatz, der es erlaubt, die Lohn- und...

Die Zeitarbeitsbranche hat in der letzten Dekade auf den Arbeitsmärkten der meisten europäischen Länder eine bedeutende Rolle gespielt. Eine Ausnahme war bislang Dänemark. Nun hat dieser Trend auch unseren Nachbarn erreicht. Ob Zeitarbeit in einem Land, das durch hohe...

German employment protection legislation has recently come under criticism. Some complain that the employment protection legislation no longer protects the employment relationship against the arbitrary termination by the employer. Others emphasize that dismissal protection restricts firms'...

Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...

Using administrative data for West Germany, we investigate whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first document fewer search frictions in denser labour markets. We further show that controlling for search frictions lowers the wage...

Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is the Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for...

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...

Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of...