This article provides a simple model that explains the choice between permanent and
temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment …

Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total
employment in both the US and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of …

At first blush, most advances in labor demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then
progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has …

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment
contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Workers under …

Atypical work refers to employment relationships, which do not conform to the standard
model of full-time job of unlimited duration with a single employer. They differ from the typical …

Le modèle WorkSim est un outil d'analyse basé sur la méthodologie multiagent ou ACE
(Tesfatsion [2002]), et est conçu pour simuler le marché du travail français dans son …

The model WorkSim is a new tool of analysis for the French labor market. The two main
novelties of the model are that it simulates the gross flows of workers between different …

Short‐term employment contracts have been deployed rapidly across European countries in
the past decades. In this paper we suitably modify a known search and matching theoretical …

This paper examines the e® ects of a two-tier reform of the Employment Protection
Legislation that increases° exibility at the margin by allowing¯ rms to hire workers on …

Short-term employment contracts have been deployed rapidly across the European Union
(EU) in the past two decades. Characterized by a high degree of flexibility, they were thought …