This paper examines how trade liberalization-induced labor demand shocks affect wages and non-wage working conditions. Using exogenous trade shocks from EU enlargement and worker-level data, we find that export liberalization increases temporary contracts and atypical work schedules,...

This paper evaluates a hiring subsidy for lower-educated youths in Flanders (Belgium) that reduced labour costs by approximately 13% for a period of two years, starting in 2016. Using a donut Regression Discontinuity Design, we find no evidence that the subsidy improved the job finding rate of...

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3%, but the gap is negative in more than 25% of establishment × occupation cells. We...

This study analyses the impact of an Alternative Work Arrangement (AWA) called "voucher" on earnings of atypical workers and on their alternative income sources using Italian administrative data. Specifically, we investigate whether this form of very flexible work substitutes income from more...

This study analyses the impact of vouchers, an Italian alternative work arrangement, on earnings of atypical workers. We investigate whether this form of very flexible casual work substitutes for income from more standard labor contracts and from employment insurance programs. We rely on panel...

Using French administrative data we estimate the wage gap distribution between in-house and temporary agency workers working in the same establishment and the same occupation. The average wage gap is about 3% in favor of in-house workers, but the gap is negative in more than 25% of establishment...

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a reform introduced in Italy in 2018 (Decreto Dignità), which increased the rigidity of employment protection legislation (EPL) of temporary contracts, rolling back previous policies, to reduce job instability. We use longitudinal labour force data from...

Wie wirken sich bestehende und mögliche Regulierungen der Temporärarbeit auf einzelne Stakeholder und die Gesamtwirtschaft aus? swissstaffing, der Dachverband der Schweizer Personaldienstleister, sieht die Branche derzeit mit verschiedenen regulatorischen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Swiss...

Seit den 80er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts steht die Befürchtung im Raum, dass das sogenannte Normalarbeitsverhältnis als unbefristetes sozialversicherungspflichtiges Vollzeitbeschäftigungsverhältnis in Deutschland an Bedeutung verliert und die unter dem Oberbegriff "atypischer...

Die Lohnlücke zwischen Personen, die innerhalb und außerhalb der Zeitarbeit beschäftigt sind, wird in Deutschland auf Grundlage verschiedener Datensätze berechnet, was teilweise zu sehr unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen führt. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit...

Der dringende Handlungsbedarf angesichts der Arbeitsbedingungen in der Fleischindustrie war schon seit mehreren Jahren Thema. Die erschreckenden Zustände, offensichtlich unzureichender Arbeitsschutz und die verheerenden gesundheitlichen Folgen für die zu einem großen Teil migrantischen...

This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core-periphery hypothesis predicts that permanent workers should have...

This study investigates the hourly wage gap between 25- and 55-year-old temporary and permanent employees across 30 countries worldwide based on Luxembourg Income Study data from 2000 to 2019 supplemented by other survey data. Two-stage multilevel regressions reveal wage disadvantages for...

This study investigates the hourly wage gap between 25-55 year old temporary and permanent employees across 30 countries worldwide based on Luxembourg Income Study data from 2000-2019 supplemented by other survey data. Two-stage multilevel regressions reveal wage disadvantages for temporary...

Seit den 80er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts steht die Befürchtung im Raum, dass das sogenannte Normalarbeitsverhältnis als unbefristetes sozialversicherungspflichtiges Vollzeitbeschäftigungsverhältnis in Deutschland an Bedeutung verliert und die unter dem Oberbegriff "atypischer...

We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced firing costs for permanent employees and tightened temporary contracts' regulation to increase job...

We study the causal effect of temporary employment on fertility and infant health outcomes by exploiting exogenous variation in the availability of temporary contracts. The Spanish 1984 reform led to an extensive liberalisation in the use of fix-term contracts, increasing job insecurity and...

Standard screening and core-periphery theories claim that temporary employment does not undermine the quality of permanent jobs. In contrast, organizational approaches suggest that firms use temporary contracts to pursue low-road employment strategies, which involve the creation of cheap and low...

Using microdata from Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Population Census, this paper explores how spatial characteristics are correlated with temporary employment outcomes for Canada's immigrant population. Results from ordinary least square regression models suggest that census...