We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the" stepping stone vs. dead end"
hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market …

The speed of the economic downturn in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been
exceptional, causing mass layoffs—in Germany up to 30% of the workforce in some …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 1994–2017), we investigate
how 10-year career sequences, which can be grouped into distinct career patterns, relate to …

In this article, we examine wage negotiations as a specific instance of claims-making,
predicting that the capacity to make a claim is first a function of the position, rather than the …

This study analyses the relationship between flexible employment, productivity and wages,
along their distributions. We use an original firm-level dataset, which combines information …

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen zunehmender
Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung auf Erwerbsverläufe in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Es …

Poland has become an interesting outlier in Europe in terms of employment flexibility, with
an extremely high incidence of fixed-term contracts, particularly at labour market entry. In this …

Currently, a much-debated issue concerns the social and political significance of the
emergence of the precariat, a social class consisting of people for whom uncertainty and …

We use German panel data to examine how fixed-term employment affects utility derived
from working. In contrast to previous research, we present evidence that working on a …

This article attempts to answer the question to what extent recent reforms aimed at
flexibilizing the German labour market affected immigrants and how this explains the (in) …