Restrictions of fixed term employment contracts: evidence from a German reform
This paper examines the impact of legal restrictions on fixed-term contracts on employment, wages and the careers of labour market entrants. Specifically, I analyse a 2001 German reform that made it more difficult for establishments that are not subject to employment protection to hire workers on fi...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Mannheim, Germany
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim
2019
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| Series: | Discussion paper
no. 19, 034 (08/2019) |
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Discussion paper (no. 19, 034 (08/2019))
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/203118 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.zew.de/de/publikationen/restrictions-of-fixed-term-employment-contracts-evidence-from-a-german-reform/?cHash=dfd62e9ead30ec71c1f0902d9fbf6b5e Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp19034.pdf Verlag, kostenfrei: https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/52859 
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| Author Notes: | Eduard Brüll |
| Summary: | This paper examines the impact of legal restrictions on fixed-term contracts on employment, wages and the careers of labour market entrants. Specifically, I analyse a 2001 German reform that made it more difficult for establishments that are not subject to employment protection to hire workers on fixed-term contracts. Using a Difference-in-Differences approach, which compares establishments subject to employment protection with those that are not both before and after the reform, I find that the reform has reduced the use of fixed-term contracts, but has not markedly changed net employment. However, the reform has had positive effects on the career stability of post-reform labour market entrants. |
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