Do changes in regulation affect employment duration in temporary work agencies?

Arbeitspapier

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 fixedterm contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms. We find that the repeated prolongation of the maximum period for hiring-out employees significantly increased the average employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 44

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Particular Labor Markets: Public Policy ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies ; Particular Labor Markets: General ; Labor Law
• Subject: temporary agency work ; regulation ; labor law ; duration analysis

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Antoni, Manfred ; Jahn, Elke J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23786
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET