Atypische Beschäftigung
Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt wird zunehmend heterogener. Teilzeitbeschäftigung und Minijobs boomen. Ebenso haben befristete Beschäftigung und Leiharbeit an Bedeutung gewonnen und die Verbreitung von Flächentarifverträgen ist rückläufig. Diese atypischen Erwerbsformen geben Unternehmen mehr Flexibilität.
Was sind die Konsequenzen der zunehmenden Bedeutung atypischer Beschäftigungsformen für Erwerbstätige, Arbeitslose und Betriebe? Welche Bedeutung haben sie für die sozialen Sicherungssysteme, das Beschäftigungsniveau und die Durchlässigkeit des Arbeitsmarktes? Die IAB-Themendossier bietet Informationen zum Forschungsstand.
- Forschung und Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
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Atypische Beschäftigung insgesamt
- Gesamtbetrachtungen
- Erosion des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses
- Prekäre Beschäftigung
- Politik, Arbeitslosigkeitsbekämpfung
- Arbeits- und Lebenssituation atypisch Beschäftigter
- Betriebliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Rechtliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Gesundheitliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Beschäftigungsformen
- Qualifikationsniveau
- Alter
- geographischer Bezug
- Geschlecht
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Lower cost at a cost? The effects of flexible labour on non-profit operational outcomes (2025)
Altamimi, Hala; Liu, Qiaozhen;Zitatform
Altamimi, Hala & Qiaozhen Liu (2025): Lower cost at a cost? The effects of flexible labour on non-profit operational outcomes. In: Public Management Review, S. 1-34. DOI:10.1080/14719037.2025.2526533
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"The rise of flexible labour promises cost savings and flexibility. However, empirical research examining the organizational consequences of this employment model remains limited. Our analysis of panel data (2008–2018) on non-profits in the U.S. shows that flexible labour negatively influences operational outcomes. This effect is pronounced when these workers are involved in core organizational functions. The findings suggest that the increasing reliance on flexible labour promotes a short-term transactional employment approach incompatible with the sector’s institutional, motivational, and relational context. We suggest avenues for better aligning flexible labour use with non-profits organizational values and mission." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Parental precarious employment and the mental health of adolescents: a Swedish registry study (2025)
Aronsson, Amanda E.; Mangot-Sala, Lluís ; Hernando-Rodriguez, Julio C.; Badarin, Kathryn ; Alfayumi-Zeadna, Samira; Gunn, Virginia; Thern, Emelie ; Muntaner, Carles ; Kreshpaj, Bertina; Julià, Mireia ; Kvart, Signild ; Bodin, Theo ; Matilla-Santander, Nuria;Zitatform
Aronsson, Amanda E., Emelie Thern, Nuria Matilla-Santander, Signild Kvart, Julio C. Hernando-Rodriguez, Kathryn Badarin, Mireia Julià, Samira Alfayumi-Zeadna, Virginia Gunn, Bertina Kreshpaj, Carles Muntaner, Theo Bodin & Lluís Mangot-Sala (2025): Parental precarious employment and the mental health of adolescents: a Swedish registry study. In: Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 59-67. DOI:10.5271/sjweh.4210
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"This study investigates the association between parental precarious employment (PE) and the mental health of their adolescent children, with a particular focus on how the association differs based on whether the mother or father is in PE. This register-based study used the Swedish Work, Illness, and Labor-market Participation (SWIP) cohort. A sample of 117 437 children aged 16 years at baseline (2005) were followed up until 2009 (the year they turned 20). A multidimensional construct of PE (SWE-ROPE 2.0) was used to classify parental employment as either precarious, substandard or standard. The outcome, adolescents’ mental disorders, wasmeasured as a diagnosis of a mental disorder using ICD-10 codes or by prescribed psychotropic drugs using ATC codes. Crude and adjusted Cox regression models produced hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) to estimate the association between parental PE and adolescents’mental health. Adolescents with parents in PE exhibited a higher risk of developing mental disorders. The association was more pronounced for paternal PE (HR 1.22, 95% CI 1.10–1.35) compared to maternal PE (HR 1.11, 95% CI 1.00–1.21). These associations largely persisted after adjusting for important confounders, including parental mental health. This study addresses a significant gap in the literature on parental PE and adolescents’ mental health. As PE is growing more common across countries, this study provides relevant insights into the intergenerational role that parental low-quality employment may have in terms of mental health within families." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How Important is Selection into Full-time and Part-time Employment? A New Panel Data Sample Selection Model for Estimating Wage Profiles (2025)
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Been, Jim, Marike Knoef & Heike Vethaak (2025): How Important is Selection into Full-time and Part-time Employment? A New Panel Data Sample Selection Model for Estimating Wage Profiles. In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, S. 1-19. DOI:10.1080/07350015.2025.2520851
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"The literature has shown that correcting for self-selection into work is important for the estimation of wage profiles. In this paper, we analyze to what extent intensive labor supply choices add valuable otherwise unobserved information to improve wage profile estimates. We develop a panel data sample selection model that allows for discrete choices in labor supply decisions and apply this to high-quality administrative data. Compared to labor supply decisions at the extensive margin, our new approach is able to control for additional unobserved heterogeneity from intensive labor supply choices with important consequences for the existence and direction of selection into (part-time) work. Applied to the data, we find that such information is especially important for estimating part-time wage profiles for women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Hiring Subsidies and Temporary Work Agencies (2025)
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Bermúdez-Barrezueta, Natalia, Sam Desiere & Giulia Tarullo (2025): Hiring Subsidies and Temporary Work Agencies. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17616), Bonn, 40 S.
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"This paper evaluates a hiring subsidy for lower-educated youths in Flanders (Belgium) that reduced labor 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 eligible job seekers in 2016-19, a period marked by a tight labor market. We then investigate the role of temporary work agencies, which disproportionately employ the target group and obtain 25% to 34% of the subsidies. Using Difference-in-Differences regressions, we demonstrate that agencies did not raise wages of eligible agency workers in response to the policy. Remarkably, despite a 3.3% labor cost reduction, full-time equivalent employment of eligible workers in these agencies decreased by 9.2% over the three years following the reform. Our findings highlight how an active labor market policy affects agency employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labour market reforms, institutional complementarity and the insider–outsider wage gap (2025)
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Broschinski, Sven (2025): Labour market reforms, institutional complementarity and the insider–outsider wage gap. In: Socio-economic review, Jg. 23, H. 1, S. 229-255. DOI:10.1093/ser/mwae024
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"This article provides long-term evidence on how wage differentials between permanent and temporary workers are shaped by institutions that play a key role in labour market dualism, i.e. industrial relations, employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. A two-step multilevel approach with fixed effects is employed using EU-SILC data for 25 European countries spanning up to 17 years (waves 2004–2020, N = 397) to estimate the moderating effects of several institutions and their interactions on the wage gap by contract type and across the whole wage distribution. The results show that more insider-oriented institutions tend to widen wage differentials and that the impact of institutional reforms on the wage gap varies greatly with the given institutional context. Overall, policy trends towards flexibilization risk widening insider–outsider divides due to accumulating labour market risks for temporary workers, thus increasing labour market segmentation by contract type." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment Quality and Mental Health in Germany: the Mismatch of Low Employment Quality with Work and Family Values by Gender (2025)
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De Moortel, Deborah, Rebeka Balogh, Miriam Engels & Julie Vanderleyden (2025): Employment Quality and Mental Health in Germany: the Mismatch of Low Employment Quality with Work and Family Values by Gender. In: Social Science & Medicine, Jg. 371. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117906
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"Empirical evidence on whether low-quality employment is detrimental to workers’ mental health is mostly cross-sectional and empirical evidence on pathways linking employment quality (EQ) to mental health remains scarce. Consequently, this study examines subsequent mental health associations of low-quality employment. Associations between EQ and mental health are investigated through a typology of employment arrangements. This study also investigates whether the relation between EQ types and subsequent mental health is different for workers with varying intensities of work and family values (i.e., importance of success at work and of having children, respectively) across genders. Using a large representative German panel dataset and Latent Class Cluster Analysis, EQ types are built and linked to mental health two years later. We assess two- and three-way interactions between EQ types and values, and between EQ types, gender and values, respectively. We found six EQ types: SER-like, precarious unsustainable, precarious full-time, SER-light, portfolio and protected part-time employment. Controlled for socio-demographic characteristics, precarious unsustainable employment for men and precarious full-time employment for women were associated to lower mental health after two years, compared to SER-like employment. Although protected part-time employment related to worse mental health for those with moderate to strong work and family values, compared to those with mild values, the interactions show an unclear pattern of the moderating role of values for the relation between EQ and subsequent mental health, for both men and women. This study should be replicated in other countries to confirm similar associations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.) ((en))
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Informal employment in the health sector: Examining gender disparities (2025)
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Ehab, Maye & Fatma Mossad (2025): Informal employment in the health sector: Examining gender disparities. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 2, 2024-09-20. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12704
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"This paper investigates the association between informal employment as a form of non-standard employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty for women in the health sector. We measured in-work poverty using a binary indicator that provides information on whether an individual has earnings above or below the low earnings threshold. The indicator takes into account household size and whether other household members are also in paid work. Using data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey for the years 2012 and 2018 and logit models, we found that being employed within the health sector increased the likelihood of in-work poverty among non-standard employees, both men and women. However, higher risks of in-work poverty were witnessed among women working informally in the health sector compared to other sectors. This increased risk was particularly observed when comparing non-standard employment in the health sector to non-standard employment in non-health sectors. Furthermore, marital status plays a critical role in economic wellbeing, with never-married women being more susceptible to in-work poverty compared to ever-married women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))
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Why Europeans (do not) leave part-time employment? A competing risks analysis (2025)
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Flek, Vladislav & Martin Hála (2025): Why Europeans (do not) leave part-time employment? A competing risks analysis. In: Empirica. DOI:10.1007/s10663-025-09658-y
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"We analyse the tenures in and exits from part-time employment from the gender perspective, considering separately the “old” (Western European) and “new” (Eastern European) EU countries. Overall, poor health, older age, low education, and preceding unemployment or inactivity experiences hinder the transitions from part-time to full-time employment and simultaneously increase the odds of exiting via unemployment or inactivity. Household and macroeconomic covariates are more illustrative than individual characteristics in revealing the deeply rooted differences in the exit patterns from part-time employment across the sexes and sub-regions. Further, we show that part-time work is a relatively resilient employment pattern, especially among Western European women. Despite gender- and regional-based variations, full-time employment is the main exit channel from part-time employment in all cases. Thus, part-time employment serves to a high degree as a stepping stone into full-time jobs, which is additionally supported by the prevalence of prolonged durations of full-time employment arrangements when a spell of part-time employment expires. Though the fraction of spells of part-time employment resulting in employment discontinuity represents just 25–30% (depending on the sub-region and sex), the exclusion from paid employment among former part-time workers requires policy attention: nearly a third of all unemployment episodes following the termination of a spell of part-time employment last 12 months or longer while analogous figures for inactivity tenures are more diverse and range between 40 and 60%." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data (2025)
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Friedrich, Martin & Nils Teichler (2025): Do temporary employees experience increased material deprivation? Evidence from German panel data. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 35, H. 2, S. 143-156., 2024-08-16. DOI:10.1177/09589287241300011
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"Economic insecurity has recently received increasing attention as a determinant of material deprivation. We contribute to this line of research by analysing the relationship between temporary employment and material deprivation. We argue that temporary workers face exacerbated deprivation because they may forego basic needs to provide for an uncertain future. Using German panel data for the years 2008–2020, we find that temporary employment increases material deprivation among workers, particularly in low-income households. This finding is robust to our controlling for important variables such as household income and needs, individual- and household fixed effects and when considering lagged independent variables. The association is not driven by young or highly educated workers who may be more likely to hold temporary jobs without experiencing sustained material deprivation. We also find that temporary agency work, perceived job insecurity and firm turnover rates aggravate material deprivation. This supports the theoretical assumption that the impact of temporary employment on material deprivation is driven by the economic insecurities faced by temporary workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © SAGE) ((en))
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Feeling disadvantaged? Type of employment contract and political attitudes (2025)
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Gatskova, Kseniia, Michal Pilc & Maciej Beresewicz (2025): Feeling disadvantaged? Type of employment contract and political attitudes. In: Socio-economic review, Jg. 23, H. 2, S. 787-811., 2024-02-05. DOI:10.1093/ser/mwae011
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"We tested the theory of relative deprivation in the context of the Polish labour market during the post-crisis period from 2009 to 2015. This period witnessed the highest incidence of temporary contracts in the European Union, providing novel evidence on the causal relationship between the type of employment contract and political attitudes. Our findings suggest that temporary workers are more supportive of income redistribution but less supportive of democracy. Additionally, a shift from permanent to temporary contracts among prime-aged employees leads to a decrease in their support for democracy. Although this effect is modest in magnitude, the article points to an important mechanism influencing shifts in political attitudes. Our findings suggest that the effect of temporary employment on political attitudes is more pronounced among socio-demographic groups less accustomed to unstable employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Oxford Academic) ((en))
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Hidden behind closed doors: Non-standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe (2025)
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Giordano, Chiara & Cinzia Meraviglia (2025): Hidden behind closed doors: Non-standard employment, migrant women and gender regimes in Europe. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. e12655. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12655
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"Non-standard employment (NSE) is well-documented in the domestic sector in all European countries. The precariousness and poor working conditions of this sector reflect in a labor force composed by the most vulnerable layers of the labor market, namely, migrant women. This article analyses how and to what extent a macro-level factor, that is, the gender regime (resulting from the interplay of gender equality and gendered social norms) interacts with micro-level individual and occupational characteristics to shape the prevalence of NSE in the domestic sector in Europe. We use the 2019 EU-LFS data and run a set of logistic regression analyses. Our results show that NSE is a defining feature of domestic sector, and that migrant women are at a higher risk of being in this type of employment, especially in destination countries where gender equality is relatively lower and expectations concerning care and family responsibilities are more traditional." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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The Expanding Domains of Degraded Work in the United States: Constructing a More Comprehensive Typology of Non-standard Employment Arrangements (2025)
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Gonos, George (2025): The Expanding Domains of Degraded Work in the United States: Constructing a More Comprehensive Typology of Non-standard Employment Arrangements. In: Critical Sociology, Jg. 51, H. 7-8, S. 1383-1406. DOI:10.1177/08969205241283938
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"The spread of non-standard employment (NSE) is widely considered to have contributed to the deterioration of labor standards. Yet, in the United States, there is no definitive roster of non-standard work arrangements and no reliable estimate of the size of the non-standard workforce. For over 25 years, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has produced artificially low estimates of employers’ use of ‘alternative employment arrangements’. Its 2018 Contingent Work Supplement (CWS) reported that since 1995 the proportion of US workers in these arrangements had declined. This article proposes a more systematic framework for understanding NSE in the United States and fleshes out a more comprehensive typology better suited toward addressing the needs of policymakers and labor activists. It fundamentally reorients the study of NSE by recognizing that so-called ‘alternative’ arrangements are abusive and more aptly understood as degraded work arrangements (DWAs). The article then explores the key categories of DWAs and provides a deeper analysis of one group, dissociative arrangements, that enable the flourishing use of ‘non-employee’ workers. Concluding sections address the undertheorized state of this subject area and the challenge of union organizing in fractured labor markets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms (2025)
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Griesbach, Kathleen (2025): Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms. In: Sociology Compass, Jg. 19, H. 3. DOI:10.1111/soc4.70026
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"Platform-based gig work illustrates a broader erosion of the spatial boundaries of work. While geographers have long theorized space as an integral part of capitalist work processes and social life, sociological research has often treated space as a backdrop for work processes rather than an active process shaping the social world, contemporary work, inequality, and resistance. However, important work in urban and rural sociology emphasizes the central role place plays in social life and inequality. This review synthesizes insights on space, place, and inequality and identifies key spatial continuities between platform labor and other forms of precarious work. I find common throughlines across disciplines: the intertwining of space, place, and social relations and the relevance of space and place for understanding inequality. Next, I relate spatial theories of capitalist development to contemporary precarious work. Finally, I suggest 3 promising avenues for incorporating space into research on contemporary work and inequality today: analyzing how existing inequalities intersect with the spatial features of new and enduring work structures; examining how contemporary work processes are reshaping rural and urban geographies; and identifying the spatial practices of contemporary organizing and resistance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress (2025)
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Guo, Ya, Sizhan Cui, Zhuofei Lu & Senhu Wang (2025): Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress. In: The British journal of sociology. DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.70028
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"While there is a growing body of literature examining platform dependence and its implications for mental health, much of the research has focused on gig workers with small sample sizes. The lack of large-scale quantitative research, particularly using longitudinal representative data, limits a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationship between platform dependence and mental distress. This study uses nationally representative data from the UK and fixed effects models to explore the heterogeneity of gig work, specifically examining differences in mental distress between high-dependence workers (those solely engaged in gig work) and low-dependence workers (those also employed in other jobs). The findings reveal that high-dependence gig workers have greater mental distress compared to low-dependence and full-time workers, with their mental well-being similar to those with no paid work. Low-dependence gig workers have lower mental distress than those without paid work. Financial precarity and loneliness partly explain these differences, with the impact stronger for highly educated high-dependence workers and less educated low-dependence workers. These findings highlight the significance of recognizing the heterogeneity of gig work in addressing future well-being challenges in a post-pandemic economy, as well as broadening the scope of the latent deprivation model to encompass the unique dynamics of gig work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Befristungen bei Neueinstellungen 2024 (2025)
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Gürtzgen, Nicole, Alexander Kubis & Martin Popp (2025): Befristungen bei Neueinstellungen 2024. (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Aktuelle Daten und Indikatoren), Nürnberg, 9 S.
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"Im Rahmen der IAB-Stellenerhebung gaben die Betriebe an, im Jahr 2024 in Deutschland rund 4,4 Mio. sozialversicherungspflichtige Neueinstellungen (ohne Auszubildende und ohne MiniJobs) vorgenommen zu haben. Hiervon waren 25 Prozent, also rund 1,1 Mio. Stellen (zunächst) befristet (Tabelle 1). Die Befristung von Neueinstellungen ermöglicht den Betrieben, die Fähigkeiten von Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern zu überprüfen, bevor ein unbefristetes Arbeitsverhältnis eingegangen wird. Durch den Abschluss von befristeten Arbeitsverträgen können Betriebe ohne langfristige Mittelbindung häufig auch Jobs anbieten, die sonst vielleicht nicht finanzierbar gewesen wären. Darüber hinaus haben Befristungen für Betriebe zudem den Vorteil, dass sie (Entlassungs-)Kosten vermeiden können, die gegebenenfalls im Rahmen des allgemeinen oder tarifvertraglich erweiterten Kündigungsschutzes entstehen können (Bossler et al. 2017). Als weiteres wichtiges betriebliches Motiv für befristete Neueinstellungen ist zudem ein vorübergehender Mehrbedarf an Arbeitskräften etwa infolge temporärer Auftragsspitzen zu nennen (siehe hierzu z.B. Gürtzgen und Küfner 2023). Die Tatsache, dass Betriebe befristete Neueinstellungen vornehmen können, kann u.a. darin begründet sein, dass Betriebe über Marktmacht verfügen, die den Abschluss von befristeten Verträgen erleichtert (Bassanini et al. 2024). Zu beachten ist, dass die Befristungsquoten bei Neueinstellungen deutlich oberhalb des Anteils befristeter Beschäftigung an der Gesamtbeschäftigung liegen. Rund 2,6 Millionen Beschäftigte in Deutschland hatten laut IAB-Betriebspanel im Jahr 2022 einen befristeten Arbeitsvertrag. Das entspricht einem Anteil an allen Beschäftigten (ohne Auszubildende) von 6,6 Prozent (Hohendanner / IAB 2023). Die Diskrepanz zwischen dem Anteil befristeter Neueinstellungen und dem Befristungsanteil aller Beschäftigter zeigt, dass befristete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in nennenswertem Ausmaß in unbefristete Arbeitsverträge umgewandelt werden (Müller et al. 2017). Bedingt durch die COVID-19-Pandemie sank 2020 der Anteil an Umwandlungen in unbefristete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse (Hohendanner 2021). Auch der Anteil befristeter Neueinstellungen stieg im Jahr 2020 gegenüber dem Vorjahr kurzfristig auf 33 Prozent. Aktuell setzt sich der seit 2004 beobachtete rückläufige Trend auch im Jahr 2024 fort. Die Befristungsquote erreicht mit 25 Prozent einen neuen Tiefststand. Der im Rahmen der Erhebung 2004 gemessene Höchststand war mit 54 Prozent mehr als doppelt so hoch." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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DGB-Hochschulreport 2025: Zwischen Stagnation und Dynamik: Studien- und Arbeitsbedingungen an staatlichen und nicht-staatlichen Hochschulen in Deutschland (2025)
Hansen, Mads; Banscherus, Ulf; Cherier, Yasmin; Müller, Helene; Hoffmann, Jule;Zitatform
Hansen, Mads, Ulf Banscherus, Yasmin Cherier, Jule Hoffmann & Helene Müller (2025): DGB-Hochschulreport 2025: Zwischen Stagnation und Dynamik. Studien- und Arbeitsbedingungen an staatlichen und nicht-staatlichen Hochschulen in Deutschland. (Studie / DGB-Bundesvorstand, Abteilung Bildungspolitik und Bildungsarbeit), Berlin, 94 S.
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"Die vorliegende Studie dokumentiert in Teil A die Arbeitsbedingungen an den staatlichen und den nicht-staatlichen Hochschulen im Zeitverlauf zwischen 2007 und 2022 auf Grundlage der Daten der amtlichen Statistik. Sie berücksichtigt auf Basis der verfügbaren amtlichen Daten alle Beschäftigtengruppen (inklusive der Professor*innen). Teil B befasst sich mit der Entwicklung des nicht-staatlichen Hochschulsektors in Deutschland. Außerdem zeigt der Bericht Forschungsbedarfe und weitergehende Fragestellungen auf, deren Beantwortung zu einem besseren Verständnis dieses wachsenden Bildungs- und Wirtschaftsbereichs beitragen könnten und für eine effektive und evidenzbasierte politische Steuerung unerlässlich wären. Denn die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, dass es dringend einer größeren Aufmerksamkeit der Hochschulpolitik wie der Zivilgesellschaft bedarf, um potenzielle Fehlsteuerungen zu vermeiden. Das Wissenschaftssystem funktioniert trotz der für Viele schwierigen Rahmenbedingungen nicht zuletzt aufgrund der hohen intrinsischen Motivation der Beschäftigten. Diese Beschäftigten haben angesichts ihres hohen Engagements statt Kurzzeit-, unfreiwilliger Teilzeit- und Kettenverträgen exzellente Arbeitsbedingungen und Karriereperspektiven verdient. Die vorliegenden, teilweise ernüchternden Ergebnisse sollen die Gewerkschaften und die Personal- und Betriebsräte bei ihrem Kampf um gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft unterstützen. Sie sollen der Politik und den Personalverantwortlichen an den Hochschulen, insbesondere auch in Bezug auf die nicht-staatlichen Hochschulen, aufzeigen, wo die Handlungsbedarfe liegen und wo sie nachsteuern bzw. aktiv werden müssen. Denn es darf nicht vergessen werden, an den Hochschulen wird ein wesentlicher Teil der Fachkräfte von morgen qualifiziert. Und für eine rohstoffarme Industrienation muss das höchste Priorität haben. Denn Innovationen werden von Menschen gemacht. " (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Career expectations and outcomes: Evidence (on gender gaps) from the economics job market (2025)
Helppie-McFall, Brooke; Parolin, Eric; Zafar, Basit;Zitatform
Helppie-McFall, Brooke, Eric Parolin & Basit Zafar (2025): Career expectations and outcomes: Evidence (on gender gaps) from the economics job market. In: Journal of Public Economics, Jg. 248. DOI:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105437
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"This paper investigates gender gaps in long-term career expectations and outcomes of PhD candidates in economics. For this purpose, we match rich survey data on PhD candidates (from the 2008–2010 job market cohorts) to public data on job history and publication records through 2022. We document four novel empirical facts: (1) there is a robust gender gap in career expectations, with females about 10 percentage points less likely to ex-ante expect to get tenure or publish regularly; (2) the gender gap in expectations is remarkably similar to the gap observed for academic outcomes; (3) expectations are similarly predictive of outcomes for males and females, and (4) gender gaps in expectations can explain about 22 % and 14 % of the ex-post gaps in tenure and publications, respectively. In addition, leveraging variation in relationship status at the time expectations are reported, we show that: conditional on gender, (1) expectations regarding tenure and publications do not differ systematically by relationship status, and (2) the predictive power of expectations does not differ by the relationship status of the individual." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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Fixed-term employment contracts: No negative wage effects in the transition to temporary employment (2025)
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Hohendanner, Christian & Jonathan P. Latner (2025): Fixed-term employment contracts: No negative wage effects in the transition to temporary employment. (IAB-Kurzbericht 13/2025 (en)), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2513.en
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"Befristete Arbeitsverträge gelten im Vergleich zu unbefristeten Verträgen als weniger attraktiv. Eine aktuelle IAB-Studie zeigt jedoch, dass sich befristete Verträge nicht unbedingt nachteilig auswirken müssen, wenngleich unbefristete Verträge aus Sicht der Beschäftigten vorzuziehen sind. Entscheidend sind vor allem die weitere Laufbahn und berufliche Entwicklung – weniger der Vertragstyp. Gerade in wirtschaftlich unsicheren Zeiten lohnt ein differenzierter Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Beschäftigungsformen. Sowohl der Wechsel von befristeter in unbefristete Beschäftigung als auch umgekehrt führt nicht zu Lohnabschlägen. Zudem bieten beide Vertragsformen für Arbeitslose ähnliche Eingliederungschancen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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- Transition into permant contract, extensions of fixed-term contracts and staff departures from fixed-term contracts
- Development of fixed-term employment and fixed-term hiring in Germany
- Estimated wage effects of different transitions over four years after the transition
- Both types of contracts have a similar effect when starting a job
- Aktuelle Daten und Indikatoren: Befristete Beschäftigung in Deutschland 2024
- Estimated wage effects for transitions between different contract types and employment statuses
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Schwieriger Weg raus aus der Stütze: Nicht alle Betriebe bieten gute Chancen auf eine stabile Beschäftigung (2025)
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Hohendanner, Christian & Sarah Bernhard (2025): Schwieriger Weg raus aus der Stütze: Nicht alle Betriebe bieten gute Chancen auf eine stabile Beschäftigung. In: IAB-Forum H. 09.07.2025, 2025-07-07. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250709.01
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"Wie stabil Beschäftigungsverhältnisse von Personen sind, die zuvor Grundsicherungsleistungen bezogen haben, hängt von vielen Faktoren ab. Dabei spielen neben individuellen Merkmalen wie Qualifikation und Berufserfahrung auch betriebliche und branchenspezifische Faktoren eine wichtige Rolle. Auch wenn Leistungsbeziehende eine Beschäftigung finden, ist diese häufig nicht stabil. Entscheidend für längerfristigen Erfolg sind Merkmale wie die wirtschaftliche Perspektive des Betriebs, Größe, Tarifbindung oder Weiterbildungsangebote." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Befristete Arbeitsverträge: Keine negativen Lohneffekte beim Übergang in befristete Beschäftigung (2025)
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Hohendanner, Christian & Jonathan P. Latner (2025): Befristete Arbeitsverträge: Keine negativen Lohneffekte beim Übergang in befristete Beschäftigung. (IAB-Kurzbericht 13/2025 (de)), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2513
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"Befristete Arbeitsverträge gelten im Vergleich zu unbefristeten Verträgen als weniger attraktiv. Eine aktuelle IAB-Studie zeigt jedoch, dass sich befristete Verträge nicht unbedingt nachteilig auswirken müssen, wenngleich unbefristete Verträge aus Sicht der Beschäftigten vorzuziehen sind. Entscheidend sind vor allem die weitere Laufbahn und berufliche Entwicklung – weniger der Vertragstyp. Gerade in wirtschaftlich unsicheren Zeiten lohnt ein differenzierter Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Beschäftigungsformen. Sowohl der Wechsel von befristeter in unbefristete Beschäftigung als auch umgekehrt führt nicht zu Lohnabschlägen. Zudem bieten beide Vertragsformen für Arbeitslose ähnliche Eingliederungschancen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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also released in EnglishWeiterführende Informationen
- Geschätzte Lohneffekte bei Übergängen zwischen verschiedenen Vertragsarten und Erwerbsstatus
- Übernahmen (Entfristungen), Verlängerung von Befristungen und Personalabgänge aus befristeten Arbeitsverträgen
- Entwicklung der befristeten Beschäftigung und befristeter Einstellungen in Deutschland
- Aktuelle Daten und Indikatoren: Befristete Beschäftigung in Deutschland 2024
- Bei der Aufnahme einer Tätigkeit haben beide Vertragsarten einen ähnlichen Effekt
- Geschätzte Lohneffekte verschiedener Übergänge im Verlauf von vier Jahren nach dem Übergang
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Arbeitslos und dann? Die neuen Jobs sind meistens atypische Beschäftigungen (Serie "Bürgergeld") (2025)
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Hohmeyer, Katrin & Torsten Lietzmann (2025): Arbeitslos und dann? Die neuen Jobs sind meistens atypische Beschäftigungen (Serie "Bürgergeld"). In: IAB-Forum H. 07.05.2025, 2025-05-06. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20250507.01
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"Was passiert, nachdem Menschen arbeitslos geworden sind? Tatsächlich sind die weiteren Erwerbsverläufe höchst unterschiedlich. Der dauerhafte Sprung in eine unbefristete Vollzeitbeschäftigung gelingt den meisten Betroffenen zunächst nicht. Vielmehr findet sich die Mehrzahl in den ersten vier Jahren nach Eintritt der Arbeitslosigkeit in atypischen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen wie befristeter Beschäftigung, Teilzeit, Leiharbeit oder Minijobs wieder, nicht selten unterbrochen von Phasen erneuter Arbeitslosigkeit." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Befristete Beschäftigung in der Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien (SIAB) (2025)
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Jaenichen, Ursula (2025): Befristete Beschäftigung in der Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien (SIAB). (IAB-Forschungsbericht 11/2025), Nürnberg, 48 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FB.2511
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"Seit dem Jahr 2011 erfolgen Beschäftigungsmeldungen zur Sozialversicherung mit einem neuen Tätigkeitsschlüssel, der das binäre Merkmal „befristete Beschäftigung“ enthält. Damit können in den administrativen Daten des IAB befristete und unbefristete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse unterschieden werden. Im vorliegenden Bericht wird mit der Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien (SIAB) – ergänzt durch die Daten des Betriebshistorikpanels – für die Jahre 2012 bis 2021 eine überwiegend deskriptive Analyse befristeter Beschäftigung vorgenommen. In der Literatur zu befristeter Beschäftigung steht oft die Frage im Mittelpunkt, inwieweit befristeten Arbeitsverträgen eine Brückenfunktion zukommt, durch die befristet Beschäftigte nach einer gewissen Zeit eine unbefristete Beschäftigung finden. Dabei ist von Bedeutung, ob sich befristete und unbefristete Beschäftigte in ihren sozio-ökonomischen Merkmalen und ihrer bisherigen Erwerbsbiografie voneinander unterscheiden. Auch die Qualität der Beschäftigung, die sich an eine Befristung anschließt, wird untersucht. Auf betrieblicher Seite werden unterschiedliche Strategien des Einsatzes befristeter Beschäftigung identifiziert. Dies sind die Flexibilisierung des Arbeitskräfteeinsatzes, aber auch eine verbesserte Bewerber*innenauswahl (Screening) während der befristeten Beschäftigung. Ein erster empirischer Schwerpunkt des vorliegenden Berichts ist die Beschreibung der Erzeugung und die Untersuchung der Qualität der Datenbasis. Dabei werden die einzelnen Meldungen zunächst zu betrieblichen Beschäftigungsepisoden verarbeitet. Die anhand der so aufbereiteten Daten ablesbare Entwicklung der Zugänge in befristete Beschäftigung deckt sich im Großen und Ganzen mit den Angaben aus anderen Datenquellen. Für die Untersuchung von Übergängen und Beschäftigungsdauern werden dann noch Beschäftigungsepisoden zu Beschäftigungsketten zusammengefasst und die Zeiten dazwischen als Nichtbeschäftigungsepisoden definiert. Ein zweiter empirischer Schwerpunkt besteht in der Untersuchung des Verlaufs und der Bestimmungsfaktoren von Übergängen aus Nichtbeschäftigung in befristete und unbefristete Beschäftigung. Die graphische Analyse von Nichtbeschäftigungsdauern deutet auf einen gewissen Anpassungsprozess hin, bei dem Personen mit zunehmender Häufigkeit von Nichtbeschäftigungsepisoden in der Erwerbsbiografie eher bereit sind, eine befristete Beschäftigung aufzunehmen. Die Dynamik im Übergang in befristete und unbefristete Beschäftigung zeigt sich bei Schätzung von Verweildauermodellen darin, dass nach etwa drei Monaten Nichtbeschäftigung die Chancen für die Aufnahme einer Beschäftigung geringer werden. Vor allem für Frauen ist nach einem Jahr wieder eine Zunahme der Übergangsraten in Beschäftigung zu beobachten, eventuell machen sich hier die Effekte von Elternzeiten bemerkbar. Hinsichtlich des Zusammenhangs des Übergangs in befristete und unbefristete Beschäftigung mit der vorangehenden Erwerbsbiografie ergibt sich ein „sowohl als auch“: Deutliche Statusabhängigkeit zeigt sich darin, dass frühere befristete Beschäftigung mit einer erhöhten Abgangsrate in erneute befristete Beschäftigung und oft auch mit einer geringeren Übergangsrate in unbefristete Beschäftigung einhergeht. Dies birgt die Gefahr der Verfestigung der mit Befristungen verbundenen Nachteile. Die Brückenfunktion befristeter Beschäftigung äußert sich darin, dass befristete Berufserfahrung auch beim Übergang in unbefristete Beschäftigung positiv gewertet wird. Dafür, dass eine unstete Erwerbsbiografie sich nicht zwangsläufig verfestigt, spricht auch, dass mehrfache Betriebswechsel mit höheren Übergangsraten in befristete und unbefristete Beschäftigung einhergehen. Auf Seite der Betriebe ist es zunächst die Zugehörigkeit zu unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftsbereichen, die mit ungleichen Übergangsrisiken in befristete Beschäftigung einhergeht. Die Wirtschaftszweige dürften dabei unterschiedliche Personalbedarfe der Betriebe repräsentieren, etwa als Ergebnis einer schwankenden Produktnachfrage. Die Übergangsraten in befristete Beschäftigung sind für Betriebe mit unter 10 Beschäftigten deutlich niedriger. Dieser Befund wird hier dahingehend interpretiert, dass diese Betriebe vom Kündigungsschutz ausgenommen sind und befristete Beschäftigung daher wenig genutzt wird. Ein sehr deutlicher und positiver Zusammenhang ist zwischen der Übergangsrate in befristete Beschäftigung und dem Anteil befristet Beschäftigter im einstellenden Betrieb zu verzeichnen. Das zeigt, dass befristete Beschäftigung in einigen Betrieben routinemäßig genutzt wird. Für die Beschäftigten birgt dies das Risiko dauerhafter Instabilität. Ein dritter empirischer Schwerpunkt besteht in der Untersuchung der Dauer von befristet beginnender Beschäftigung. Zunächst wird für betriebliche Beschäftigungsepisoden gezeigt, dass befristet beginnende Episoden deutlich kürzer sind als unbefristete. Bei der Betrachtung von Beschäftigungsketten zeigt sich, dass nur aus befristeten Episoden bestehende Ketten weit kürzer sind als durchgängig unbefristete Beschäftigungsketten. Für befristet beginnende und in unbefristete Beschäftigung übergehende Beschäftigungsketten sind die Beschäftigungsdauern sogar länger als für durchgängig unbefristete Ketten. Werden befristet und unbefristet beginnende Beschäftigungsketten verglichen, zeigen sich für einige Merkmale deutliche Unterschiede. Auffällig ist hier erneut der bei befristeten Einstellungen hohe Anteil befristet Beschäftigter im einstellenden Betrieb. Im Ergebnis tragen unterschiedliche (beobachtete) Merkmale von befristet und unbefristet Beschäftigten und der sie einstellenden Betriebe zu den Unterschieden in den Beschäftigungsdauern bei." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Why does temporary work increase disability insurance inflow? (2025)
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Koning, Pierre, Paul Muller & Roger Prudon (2025): Why does temporary work increase disability insurance inflow? In: Labour Economics, Jg. 96. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102719
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"We show that workers with fixed-term contracts are substantially more likely to apply for and be awarded disability insurance (DI) benefits than permanent workers. We study whether this differential can be explained by (i) selection of worker types into contracts, (ii) the relation between contract type and the risk of illness, (iii) differences in employer support during illness, and (iv) differences in labour market prospects of ill workers. We find that selection actually masks part of the differential, whereas the impact of contract type on health is limited. In contrast, the difference in employer support during illness is a significant cause of the heightened DI risk of temporary workers, especially in slack labour markets. We therefore conclude that, conditional on being ill, workers with fixed-term contracts face different support structures and incentives that make them more likely to ultimately apply for and be awarded DI." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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Part-time work, job satisfaction, employee well-being and organisational restructuring (2025)
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Krutova, Oxana (2025): Part-time work, job satisfaction, employee well-being and organisational restructuring. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 45, H. 5/6, S. 511-528. DOI:10.1108/ijssp-01-2025-0004
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"Purpose: As a result of the ageing population, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis, the labor market has experienced unprecedented expressions of external and internal change. In working life, nothing is the same, especially regarding the mobility of the workforce, the forms of work organisation and the employees’ influence and well-being. Considering these factors, in this article, we aim to investigate the connections between part-time work, well-being and the attractiveness of work for employees from the perspective of organizational restructuring. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were based on the European Working Conditions Survey from 1991 to 2015. Since its launch in 1990, the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) has provided an overview of working conditions in Europe. The data for Finland contained 5,646 respondents. A gneralised linear model (GLM) was used with the Gaussian family for odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Findings The results showed that workers in restructured organizations are less satisfied with working conditions than workers in organizations without restructuring. These associations were even higher if the number of hours (OR 1.15, CI 1.06, 1.24), salary (OR 1.14, CI 1.06, 1.23) and the amount of influence over your work (OR 1.15, CI 1.07, 1.24) have changed during the last 12 months. These associations were slightly lower in the models, and they were additionally adjusted for the existence of part-time work. Originality/value In restructured organizations, part-time work seems to be associated with worsening job satisfaction but improving employee well-being." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))
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Labour and social protection gaps impacting the health and well-being of workers in non-standard employment: An international comparative study (2025)
Kvart, Signild ; Cuervo, Isabel; Muntaner, Carles ; Julià, Mireia ; Gunn, Virginia; Ivarsson, Lars; Davis, Letitia; Lewchuk, Wayne ; Bosmans, Kim ; Bodin, Theo ; Baron, Sherry L.; Gutiérrez-Zamora, Mariana; Vílchez, David; Diaz, Ignacio; Vänerhagen, Kristian; Bolíbar, Mireia ; O'Campo, Patricia; Álvarez-López, Valentina; Escrig-Piñol, Astrid; Ahonen, Emily Q.; Vignola, Emilia F.; Zaupa, Alessandro; Vos, Mattias ; Östergren, Per-Olof ; Vives, Alejandra ; Ruiz, Marisol E.; Padrosa, Eva ;Zitatform
Kvart, Signild, Isabel Cuervo, Virginia Gunn, Wayne Lewchuk, Kim Bosmans, Letitia Davis, Astrid Escrig-Piñol, Per-Olof Östergren, Eva Padrosa, Alejandra Vives, Alessandro Zaupa, Emily Q. Ahonen, Valentina Álvarez-López, Mireia Bolíbar, Ignacio Diaz, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora, Lars Ivarsson, Mireia Julià, Carles Muntaner, Patricia O'Campo, Marisol E. Ruiz, Kristian Vänerhagen, Emilia F. Vignola, David Vílchez, Mattias Vos, Theo Bodin & Sherry L. Baron (2025): Labour and social protection gaps impacting the health and well-being of workers in non-standard employment: An international comparative study. In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 20. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0320248
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"Background: World economies increasingly rely on non-standard employment arrangements, which has been linked to ill health. While work and employment conditions are recognized structural determinants of health and health equity, policies aiming to protect workers from negative implications predominantly focus on standard employment arrangements and the needs of workers in non-standard employment may be neglected. The aim of this study is to explore workers’ experiences of gaps in labour regulations and social protections and its influence on their health and well-being across 6 countries with differing policy approaches: Belgium, Canada, Chile, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Methods: 250 semi-structured interviews with workers in non-standard employment were analyzed thematically using a multiple case-study approach. Results: There are notable differences in workers’ rights to protection across the countries. However, participants across all countries experienced similar challenges including employment instability, income inadequacy and limited rights and protection, due to policy-related gaps and access-barriers. In response, they resorted to individual resources and strategies, struggled to envision supportive policies, and expressed low expectations of changes by employers and policymakers. Conclusions: Policy gaps threaten workers’ health and well-being across all study countries, irrespective of the levels of labour market regulations and social protections. Workers in non-standard employment disproportionately endure economic risks, which may increase social and health inequality. The study highlights the need to improve social protection for this vulnerable population." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Unemployed and then? The role of non-standard employment in labour market trajectories after unemployment (2025)
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Lietzmann, Torsten & Katrin Hohmeyer (2025): Unemployed and then? The role of non-standard employment in labour market trajectories after unemployment. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 2, 2024-08-30. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12698
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"Non-standard employment (NSE) might offer employment opportunities for unemployed workers, who would not find a job otherwise and can improve their human capital while working in NSE instead of being unemployed. NSE thus could serve as a bridge to regular, permanent employment. However, these stepping stone effects might not occur in a segmented labor market, when the accumulated human capital is not useful for regular jobs or NSE is not a positive signal to potential employers. Using German administrative data and sequence and cluster analysis, this article examined the labor market trajectories of initially unemployed individuals between 2012 and 2015 over a 4-year period with a focus on four common forms of NSE. The results indicate that NSE is not limited to marginal groups but 62% of the initially unemployed belong to a cluster with a substantial share of NSE. Furthermore, while most individuals stay in NSE, some regular full-time employment occurs after NSE." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))
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The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity (2025)
Llosa, José Antonio ; Agulló-Tomás, Esteban ; Iglesias-Martínez, Enrique ; Oliveros, Beatriz ; Menéndez-Espina, Sara;Zitatform
Llosa, José Antonio, Enrique Iglesias-Martínez, Esteban Agulló-Tomás, Sara Menéndez-Espina & Beatriz Oliveros (2025): The effect of precarious employment on suicidal ideation: A serial mediation model with contractual temporality and job insecurity. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Jg. 46, H. 1, S. 239-255. DOI:10.1177/0143831X241240616
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"Suicidal ideation is a variable prior to suicidal behavior and one of the main producers of risk of death by suicide. The sample consisted of a total of 1,288 people living in Spain who at the time of answering the questionnaire were in active employment. Contractual status is a significant variable for the prediction of suicidal ideation. Contractual temporality is a risk factor for suicidal ideation, whereas permanent employment is a protective factor. In suicidal ideation, job insecurity is a mediating risk factor and a key dimension of job precariousness because of the adverse effects on mental health it causes. Job insecurity interacts with objective causes of precariousness and is presented as a necessary variable for understanding the relationship between these material causes and suicidal thoughts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap? (2025)
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Lott, Yvonne & Andreas Hövermann (2025): Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap? In: Work, Employment and Society, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1177/09500170251351265
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"The digital transformation may disproportionately disadvantage female part-time workers, as they are affected by the flexibility stigma and career penalties. In this article, we ask: Is there a gendered part-time gap in work-related computer use and digital frustration in Germany? Latent class analysis and multivariate analysis, based on data from Wave 12 (2019/20) of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) Starting Cohort 6 – Adults, showed that women – and part-time working women in particular – were less likely than men to be classified as ‘advanced users’. Furthermore, part-time working women felt least well prepared for using networked digital technologies at work and were thus more at risk of experiencing digital frustration. These findings suggest that the triadic association between technology, power and masculinity postulated by feminist technology theory should be extended to include full-time work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth (2025)
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Maestripieri, Lara, Alba Lanau, Roger Soler‐i‐Martí & Míriam Acebillo‐Baqué (2025): Intertwined precariousness and precarity: Disentangling a phenomenon that characterises Spanish youth. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. e12709. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12709
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"The growth of non-standard employment has emerged as a crucial factor that contributes to delays and difficulties in young people's transitions to adulthood. Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of multidimensional measures of precariousness. This paper aims to investigate the phenomenon of precariousness holistically, using an original database of respondents in Spain from 20 to 34 years of age. Using a mixed-methods approach, we explore young people's understandings of precariousness and examine its key determinants and consequences. The findings illustrate the multidimensional nature of feelings of precariousness, with economic insecurity and work conditions being core elements. Our results point to precarity stemming from a combination of inextricably intertwined objective and subjective components, as well as work and economic dimensions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy (2025)
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Maffie, Michael David & Hector Hurtado (2025): The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy. In: BJIR. DOI:10.1111/bjir.70004
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"This study investigates the mechanisms by which gig platforms degrade labor conditions over time, building on the concept of platform decay, or ‘enshittification’, initially developed in the context of social media platforms. In this article, we draw on 30 interviews with long-term gig workers in the ride-hail and grocery delivery sectors, offering insights into how these companies shift from offering attractive working conditions to exploiting labor as these services develop market power via network effects. We identify three mechanisms through which gig companies claw back value from workers over time: burden shifting (transferring operational costs to workers), feature addition and alteration (increasing the demands on workers), and market manipulation (reducing worker bargaining power). We then explore how workers respond to platform decay, finding that workers adopt three responses: effort recalibration , multi-homing and navigating the changing conditions through what we term toxic resilience . This study contributes to the gig work literature by developing a framework to explain how working conditions in the gig economy improve or degrade over time. In doing so, this article provides a framework for organizing the growing constellation of labour research on gig workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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The Role of Working-From-Home for Maternal Employment Re-Entry after Childbirth (2025)
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Matysiak, Anna, Beata Osiewalska & Anna Kurowska (2025): The Role of Working-From-Home for Maternal Employment Re-Entry after Childbirth. (Working papers / Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw 2025-18), Warsaw, 43 S.
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"This study investigates how work-from-home (WFH) —by mothers and their male partners—shapes maternal employment re-entry after childbirth. Drawing on Conservation of Resources and Boundary Management theories, the study distinguishes between WFH access and regular use. It hypothesizes that regular WFH use by mothers and their partners supports earlier and full-time maternal return to paid work, particularly among second-time mothers. The UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2019) is used to estimate discrete-time hazard models of return to paid work after first and second births, distinguishing between full-time and part-time re-entry. Among first-time mothers, both WFH access and regular use are associated with a greater likelihood of full-time re-entry, though not with overall return. Among second-time mothers, regular pre-birth WFH use significantly increases the likelihood of returning to paid work—regardless of hours—whereas access alone does not. No significant associations are found between male partners' WFH and maternal employment outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Role of Care Paradoxes in Maintaining Precariousness: A Case Study of Australia's Aged Care Work (2025)
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McEwen, Celina (2025): The Role of Care Paradoxes in Maintaining Precariousness: A Case Study of Australia's Aged Care Work. In: Gender, work & organization, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 1482-1494. DOI:10.1111/gwao.13240
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"The paper examines why despite many inquiries and government reforms, the working conditions of aged care workers have remained precarious. The study draws on an analysis of Australian workforce survey data, government documents, and hearing transcripts from a recent Royal Commission into the sector's workforce and care practices. The results paint a complex and nuanced picture of how the government and providers rely on older or culturally and linguistically diverse women to carry out high standards of quality care with minimal worker benefits and protection while devaluing their work as unprofessional. The analysis also highlights the coexistence of four types of precariousness in aged care work: precariousness as a social category, a shared experience, a set of work practices, and management. Further, I find that a series of paradoxes rooted in cultural perceptions of care and older and/or diverse women maintain precariousness at work by constructing workers as the problem, entrenching disadvantage borne from intersectionality and shifting the burden of responsibility and part of the cost of caring for older people onto workers. I suggest that little improvement is possible until the systemic and sociocultural issues around care and the workers engaged in the transaction of care are tackled together as a whole." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work arrangements in digitally mediated care and domestic work (2025)
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Molitor, Friederike (2025): Work arrangements in digitally mediated care and domestic work. In: Community, work & family, S. 1-20. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2025.2523863
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"As the need for care has grown, paid care and domestic work in the private home is increasingly being organized on the market. Today, digital platforms serve as intermediaries for care and domestic services but systematic research on the resulting work arrangements between workers and clients remains limited. By understanding platform-mediated care and domestic work arrangements as a (social) exchange of ‘love and money’ between workers and clients, the study explores the working conditions and the worker-client relationships that emerge. Drawing on unique survey data collected on a large digital platform in Germany in 2019, the study shows that care and domestic workers who offer their services on digital platforms often experience informal work arrangements characterized by low working hours and irregular shifts. The worker-client relationships are described as amicable more than professional. They are often built on continuity, long-termism and reliability, which are essential for a lasting relationship. This challenges the on-demand, economic logic characterising other forms of platform work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries (2025)
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Mussida, Chiara & Dario Sciulli (2025): Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries. In: Journal of Economic Inequality, S. 1-24. DOI:10.1007/s10888-025-09666-9
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"This paper explores how householders’ and partners' low-pay conditions affect the risk of poverty ofEuropean households. We use 2016–2019 longitudinal European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data, model poverty and labour market outcomes, and account for possible endogeneity of low-pay work in the poverty equation. Low-pay work is defined on gross hourly wage basis. We find that low-pay work increases the risk of poverty compared to high-pay conditions. Notably, when compared to non-employment, the effect of low-pay work on poverty differs between householders and partners. The effect tends to be stronger for the former and smaller for the latter, which stresses the leading role of householders in income formation and the added-worker role of partners in households. The risk of poverty for low-pay workers is even reinforced by their higher probability of being employed in job positions with fewer annual working hours, such as part-time and temporary contracts. The magnitude of low-pay effects on poverty appears to be associated with institutions capable of sustaining the wage floor, earnings and income inequalities, and the generosity of social transfers. We find evidence of feedback effects from poverty on future labour market outcomes, suggesting a self-reinforcing mechanism between poverty and poor labour conditions, which along with limited upward mobility in the labour markets, may lead societies toward persistent income segmentation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Poverty and Temporary Employment in Italy (2025)
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Mussida, Chiara & Dario Sciulli (2025): Poverty and Temporary Employment in Italy. In: Italian economic journal, Jg. 11, H. 3, S. 983-1014. DOI:10.1007/s40797-024-00297-z
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"This paper explores the relationship between temporary employment and poverty in Italy by using 2016–2019 longitudinal EU-SILC data. We model both poverty and labor market outcomes and account for possible endogeneity of temporary employment in the poverty equation. We find that temporary employment reduces the risk of poverty whether compared with inactivity and unemployment. Temporary workers are more likely to stay in poverty with respect to their permanent counterpart. The different effect of permanent/temporary employment on the risk of poverty is more pronounced for householders than for partners, thereby stressing the leading role of the former in income formation. There is evidence of feedback effects from past poverty to current temporary employment. We also find significant genuine state dependence in both the processes of poverty and temporary employment. For the latter, we note the prevalence of a trapping effect into unstable jobs relationships, especially for householders. Finally, we stress the relatively weak role of social transfers in integrating labor income from temporary employment and therefore in breaking the detrimental effect of temporary work on poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands (2025)
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Nijhuis, Dennie Oude & Maximilian Kiecker (2025): Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands. In: German politics, Jg. 34, H. 3, S. 586-608. DOI:10.1080/09644008.2024.2413487
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"To explain cross-national variation in the regulation of atypical forms of employment, including measures aimed at protecting the employment conditions of nonstandard workers, existing studies have typically emphasised the importance of labour's relative power resources and insider-outsider dynamics. This article shows that differences in employer stances can also be of key importance in explaining this type of variation. Moreover, it shows that employer support for regulatory efforts to improve quality of atypical employment neither have to result from a perceived need to seek strategic accommodation nor from a positive assessment of the costs and benefits of regulation. It does so by comparing the very different responses of Dutch and German employer groups to regulatory attempts to improve the quality of part-time employment. It illustrates their importance and attributes them to strategic choices that were a logical outcome of the different institutional environments in which Dutch and German employer groups operated." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Karriere in der Wissenschaft, aber befristet beschäftigt: Wie attraktiv sind Hochschulen und außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen für junge Talente? (2025)
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Otto, Anne & Johannes König (2025): Karriere in der Wissenschaft, aber befristet beschäftigt. Wie attraktiv sind Hochschulen und außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen für junge Talente? In: Personal in Hochschule und Wissenschaft entwickeln H. 2, S. 191-207., 2025-04-01. DOI:10.25162/PEH-2025-0010
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"In Deutschland stehen promovierte Wissenschaftler*innen nach der Dissertation vor sehr unterschiedlichen Karriereperspektiven. Während sie später in der Privatwirtschaft zumeist unbefristete, gut bezahlte Jobs antreten, bleiben Beschäftigungen in der Wissenschaft häufig befristet zu vergleichsweise niedrigen Gehältern. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Beschäftigungsbedingungen für Promovierte, insbesondere die Bedeutung von Befristungen. Zudem wird mit Hilfe von Prognosen aufgezeigt, wie sich in Zukunft das Angebot an und die Nachfrage nach Wissenschaftler*innen in Deutschland entwickeln könnte. Abschließend werden die Attraktivität von Hochschulen und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen als Arbeitgebende bewertet und Handlungsempfehlungen vorgestellt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Stand der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in Deutschland in ausgewählten Branchen (2025)
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Pfahl, Svenja, Eugen Unrau & Yvonne Lott (2025): Stand der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in Deutschland in ausgewählten Branchen. (WSI-Report 102), Düsseldorf, 74 S.
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"Wie einheitlich oder unterschiedlich vollzieht sich die Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in den verschiedenen Branchen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt in Hinblick auf Erwerbsarbeitszeit, Entgelt oder Erwerbsform? Anhand zentraler Indikatoren auf Basis des WSI GenderDatenPortals liefert der vorliegende Report eine zusammenfassende Übersicht über den aktuellen Stand der Geschlechtergleichstellung in Deutschland, differenziert nach Einzelbranchen aus dem Produktions- und Dienstleistungsbereich. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Geschlechterungleichheit insbesondere in Hinblick auf die Erwerbsarbeitszeitdauer und das Entgelt über (fast) alle Branchen hinweg fortbesteht. Die detaillierte branchenbezogene Betrachtung zeigt zudem, dass bei einer Vielzahl von einzelnen Arbeitsmerkmalen Unterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männern bestehen (z. B. bei Befristung, Teilzeitarbeit, überlanger Vollzeit, Tätigkeit als Helfer*in, Entgelten im unteren Entgeltbereich, Existenzsicherung durch eigenes Erwerbseinkommen, ausschließlicher Tätigkeit im Minijob), die in einigen Branchen deutlich stärker ausgeprägt sind als in anderen. Hierbei fallen besonders sieben Produktionsbranchen und neun Dienstleistungsbranchen auf, die sich durch deutliche Geschlechterabstände (dem Abstand in Prozentpunkten zwischen Frauen und Männern in Hinblick auf ein einzelnes Arbeitsmerkmal) kennzeichnen und in einer Mehrheit von Arbeitsmerkmalen eine verstärkt ungünstige Situation für Frauen aufweisen. Gegenüber dem Vergleichsjahr 2021 weisen 2023 insgesamt mehr Branchen einen deutlichen, zweistelligen Geschlechterabstand für mindestens die Hälfte aller Arbeitsmerkmale auf. Gleichzeitig zeigen sich für eine Reihe von Branchen auch punktuelle Verringerungen des Geschlechterabstandes, gerade bei den Indikatoren zur Lage der Arbeitszeit sowie der Existenzsicherung durch eigene Erwerbsarbeit." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Neue Ergebnisse zur Verbreitung atypischer Beschäftigung in Rheinland-Pfalz (2025)
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Scheile, York W. & Emanuel Bennewitz (2025): Neue Ergebnisse zur Verbreitung atypischer Beschäftigung in Rheinland-Pfalz. (Steckbriefe des IAB-Betriebspanels), Mainz, 9 S.
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"Dieser Steckbrief zeigt auf Basis der Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels die Entwicklungen im Bereich der atypischen Beschäftigung seit dem Jahr 2014. Dabei wird aufgezeigt wie viele Betriebe die verschiedenen Formen atypischer Beschäftigung nutzten und wie viele Personen in solchen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen standen. Zusätzlich wird auch auf Geschlechterunterschiede im Bereich der atypischen Beschäftigung eingegangen. Die Ergebnisse des IAB-Betriebspanels zeigen, dass sich die Anteile der Betriebe, welche auf die verschiedenen Formen atypischer Beschäftigung zurückgriffen, als auch die Anteile der Beschäftigten in diesen Beschäftigungsformen im Verlauf der letzten 10 Jahre als weitgehend konstant erweisen. Eine Ausnahme bildet die Beschäftigung im Midi-Job-Bereich. Hier kann in den letzten Jahren aufgrund der angehobenen Verdienstobergrenzen eine Zunahme beobachtet werden. Im Jahr 2023 wurde diese Beschäftigungsform erstmals von mehr Betrieben genutzt als die geringfügige Beschäftigung. Und auch der Anteil der Beschäftigten im Midi-Job-Bereich übertraf erstmalig den Anteil der geringfügig Beschäftigten. Ebenso ist zu erwähnen, dass atypische Beschäftigungsverhältnisse unter Frauen verbreiteter sind als unter Männern. Wenngleich seit 2014 der Frauenanteil unter den Beschäftigten in den verschiedenen atypischen Beschäftigungsformen abgenommen hat, waren dennoch im Jahr 2023 von allen Beschäftigten in Teilzeit, im Midi-Job-Bereich oder in befristeten Arbeitsverhältnissen drei Viertel Frauen und nur ein Viertel Männer." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Unbefristet Beschäftigte haben im Schnitt 30 Urlaubstage pro Jahr fast zwei mehr als befristet Beschäftigte (2025)
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Wanger, Susanne & Yasemin Isabel Yilmaz (2025): Unbefristet Beschäftigte haben im Schnitt 30 Urlaubstage pro Jahr fast zwei mehr als befristet Beschäftigte. In: IAB-Forum H. 01.12.2025. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20251201.01
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"In Deutschland beträgt der gesetzliche Mindesturlaub vier Wochen, in den meisten Betrieben gelten tarifvertraglich aber deutlich höhere Urlaubsansprüche. Bei drei Viertel der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten lag der Urlaubsanspruch im Jahr 2023 bei 30 Tagen. Allerdings gibt es je nach Beschäftigtengruppe signifikante Unterschiede." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Non-standard employment, low standard of living? The role of labor market and social policy measures in preventing material deprivation in different employment trajectories in Europe (2025)
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Wolf, Fridolin (2025): Non-standard employment, low standard of living? The role of labor market and social policy measures in preventing material deprivation in different employment trajectories in Europe. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. e12689. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12689
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"While the poverty risks of non-standard employment have been explored extensively, this study focuses on the role of activation-oriented social policy in alleviating material deprivation for persons with non-standard employment histories. Using EU-SILC data, individuals over a four-year period were analyzed. I focused on substantial earners and distinguished between six non-standard employment histories expected to benefit from activation measures. Multi-level models revealed that compared to standard employment histories, all non-standard employment histories had higher material deprivation risks but to substantially different extents. At the macro level, participation in activation measures, expenditures in formal childcare and minimum income protection reduced material deprivation. Participation in training can be interpreted as an equaliser, as the deprivation gap between standard and most non-standard employment history types diminished. As expenditure- and participation-based measures differed significantly, evaluating the success of activation strategies in reducing inequalities and alleviating poverty highly depends on the measurement of activation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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What if it is not just an additional income? Poverty risks of non-standard employment histories in Germany (2025)
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Wolf, Fridolin (2025): What if it is not just an additional income? Poverty risks of non-standard employment histories in Germany. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. e12676. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12676
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"While the poverty risks associated with transitions to and from different forms of non-standard employment (NSE) have been studied extensively, poverty research on NSE histories remains fuzzy. Therefore, this study focuses on persons with NSE histories whose earnings contribute significantly to the household income, asking to what extent they are exposed to income poverty risks during their main career phase and examining the role of employment, family and sociodemographic characteristics. Employment histories were observed over 10 years using German Socio-Economic Panel data from 2001 to 2020. A sequence cluster analysis identified four NSE clusters with increased poverty risks, namely, those with increasing and permanent low-part-time work, those who were mainly temporary agency-employed or had long episodes of fixed-term employment. Multivariate regressions considering employment-specific, care-related and sociodemographic characteristics revealed a network of cumulative disadvantages related to gender, occupational position, care obligations and structural disadvantages for those clusters." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Mothers’ Nonstandard Work Schedules, Economic Hardship, and Children’s Outcomes (2025)
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Zilanawala, Afshin & Anika Schenck-Fontaine (2025): Mothers’ Nonstandard Work Schedules, Economic Hardship, and Children’s Outcomes. In: Socius, Jg. 11, S. 1-17. DOI:10.1177/23780231251332979
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"The authors investigate the moderating role of three dimensions of economic hardship on the relationship between maternal nonstandard work schedules (working evening, nights, or weekends) and children’s behavioral and cognitive outcomes at age five in the United Kingdom. The literature on the relationship between nonstandard work and child development in early childhood has not taken into consideration the potentially important role of families’ economic circumstances. Economic circumstances may reduce or amplify the potential consequences of maternal nonstandard work schedules for young children. Using the Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative birth cohort from the United Kingdom, and residualized change models, the authors test associations between children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age five from contemporaneous maternal nonstandard work schedules. Mothers who worked nonstandard schedules had more economic hardship relative to mothers working standard schedules. Nonstandard work schedules were related to higher internalizing behavior scores at age five. The authors examined if observed associations were moderated by income poverty, financial stress, and material hardship, separately, and found that the interaction of nonstandard work with higher levels of financial stress at age five was related to higher internalizing behavior scores. The results highlight a potentially challenging work-family interface in the context of working nonstandard schedules and experiencing economic hardship." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Non-standard and precarious work across Europe: An overview and mapping of national actions (2025)
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Zwysen, Wouter (2025): Non-standard and precarious work across Europe. An overview and mapping of national actions. (Report / European Trade Union Institute 2025,03), Brüssel, 39 S.
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"This paper describes different aspects of precarious and non-standard work across Europe. These are jobs that offer less security or reduced rights to workers and which dump greater uncertainty on them. There is some discrepancy between, on the one hand, the relatively positive trends in the statistics which, for instance, show non-standard work declining at EU level; and, on the other, a wider sense of greater precarity and uncertainty. Partly, this reflects some precarious types of work, such as platform work, bogus self-employment or different types of subcontracting, not being well captured by the existing large-scale surveys. The paper seeks to support the discussion of precarious and non-standard work in Europe by adding further descriptive detail including the opinions of trade union specialists. It makes use of two sources to describe the spread of precarious work. First, a cross-national quantitative overview of different types of non-standard and precarious work patterns across Europe and their evolution over time based on micro-data from the Labour Force Survey. This shows that non-standard work is associated with worse labour market outcomes and is concentrated among more vulnerable workers. Second, as precarious work can take many different forms, some severely underreported or not captured at all, it further reports information from an original survey among trade union affiliates of the ETUC, its standing committees and the European trade union federations to analyse: (1) the key aspects of precarious work they see; (2) the drivers and context shaping this; (3) changes over time; and (4) policy avenues to address precarious work. This survey highlights that there are several different types of precarious work that are widespread, with the key types differing by country. It also highlights that enforcement of the existing rules is often a problematic point, as is a weakening of collective bargaining. The paper ends by highlighting proposed and possible actions. Partly, these lie in the transposition of European directives such as the Platform Work Directive or the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages. There may also be calls for greater collaboration and more information campaigns across borders as several of the challenges, particularly as regards the vulnerability of international and posted workers, are shared and go beyond a single country." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mental health as a determinant of work: a scoping review on the impact of mental health on precarious employment (2025)
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de Oliveira, Claire, Margaret Jamieson & Sara Bonato (2025): Mental health as a determinant of work: a scoping review on the impact of mental health on precarious employment. In: Health Policy, Jg. 161. DOI:10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105395
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"Background: While many studies have examined the impact of precarious employment on mental health, the reverse relationship has received less attention. Objectives: The objectives of this scoping review were to ascertain the existing literature examining the impact of mental health on precarious employment and to describe, synthesize, and critically appraise it. Methods: Business Source Premier, EconLit, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Web of Science were searched from 1 January 1980 to 30 August 2024. Additionally, searches were undertaken in Google and specific websites; references of key papers were also examined. Relevant data were extracted from studies, and their quality was assessed, namely whether they accounted for endogeneity. Evidence was synthesized by mental disorder/illness/problem using a narrative synthesis approach. Results: After duplicates were removed, the search yielded 10,048 unique records; ultimately, 19 relevant papers, corresponding to 20 unique studies, were deemed relevant. Few specifically focused on mental health as a determinant of precarious employment and/or recognised the potential presence of endogeneity. Studies found mixed evidence on the relationship between mental health and precarious employment. While the evidence suggests that psychological distress and mental health complaints likely increase the probability of precarious employment, anxiety and emotional exhaustion likely do not. The evidence on depressive disorders is mixed/inconclusive. Conclusion: Some of the existing literature suggests that people with poor mental health may be at a higher risk of precarious employment; however, in some instances, the evidence was either mixed/inconclusive or absent. More high-quality studies are needed to inform clear policy recommendations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))
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Entwicklungen in der Zeitarbeit (2025)
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(2025): Entwicklungen in der Zeitarbeit. (Berichte: Blickpunkt Arbeitsmarkt / Bundesagentur für Arbeit), Nürnberg, 27 S.
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"Die Arbeitnehmerüberlassung reagiert frühzeitig auf Änderungen der konjunkturellen Rahmenbedingungen und kann daher ein Frühindikator für die Entwicklung am Arbeitsmarkt sein. Nach einer langen Wachstumsphase setzte im Jahr 2018 ein Rückgang der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung in der Zeitarbeit ein, der sich mit Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie verstärkte. Ab Herbst 2021 – nach einer kurzen Zeitdes Beschäftigungsaufbaus – schmolzen die Vorjahresabstände Monat für Monat. Seit Ende 2022 unterschreiten die Werte kontinuierlich das Vorjahresniveau. Seit Anfang 2024 liegen sie unter 700.000. Im Juni 2024 waren 675.000 Leiharbeitnehmende in Deutschland sozialversicherungspflichtig beschäftigt. Ihr Anteil an der Gesamtbeschäftigung lag nach kontinuierlichen Rückgängen in den letzten Jahren bei 1,9 Prozent. Im Vergleich zur Gesamtbeschäftigung ist die ausschließlich geringfügige Beschäftigung in der Arbeitnehmerüberlassung wenig verbreitet. Neben den sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten arbeiteten 50.000 Minijobber in einem Leiharbeitsverhältnis. Leiharbeitnehmende arbeiten häufiger in Tätigkeiten, die mit einem niedrigen Anforderungsniveau verbunden sind: Mehr als jeder Zweite übt eine Helfertätigkeit aus. Die Mehrzahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig beschäftigten Leiharbeitnehmenden ist männlich und jünger. Personen ohne Berufsabschluss sind anteilig deutlich häufiger vertreten als bei den sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten insgesamt. Auch der Ausländeranteil ist höher. Zeitarbeit bietet damit neben jungen Menschen auch Geringqualifizierten und Ausländern eine Einstiegsmöglichkeit in den Arbeitsmarkt. Die Beschäftigung in der Zeitarbeit weist eine überdurchschnittliche hohe Dynamik auf. Im Jahr 2024 waren 10 Prozent der in Arbeitslosigkeit zugegangenen Personen vorher in der Arbeitnehmerüberlassung beschäftigt, bei den sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigungsaufnahmen aus Arbeitslosigkeit hatte die Zeitarbeitsbranche einen Anteil von 12 Prozent. 8 von 10 Arbeitslosen, die aus Arbeitslosigkeit eine sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung in der Zeitarbeit aufgenommen haben, sind nach 6 Monaten sozialversicherungspflichtig beschäftigt, teilweise auch in anderen Branchen. Nachdem die Stellenzugänge coronabedingt deutlich eingebrochen waren, erholte sich der Kräftebedarf der Branche zwischenzeitlich. Ab Mitte 2021 gingen die monatlichen Stellenmeldungen jedoch erneut nahezu kontinuierlich zurück und liegen seit 2024 bei rund 23.000 auf historisch niedrigen Werten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The Independent Contractor Workforce: New Evidence on Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys (2024)
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Abraham, Katharine G., Brad Hershbein, Susan N. Houseman & Beth C. Truesdale (2024): The Independent Contractor Workforce: New Evidence on Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys. In: ILR review, Jg. 77, H. 3, S. 336-365. DOI:10.1177/00197939241226945
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"Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive. The authors carried out a series of focus groups to learn how independent contractors speak about their work. Based on those findings, they designed and fielded a telephone survey to elicit more accurate and complete information on independent contractors. Roughly 1 in 10 workers who initially reported working for an employer on one or more jobs (and thus were coded as employees) were independent contractors on at least one of those jobs. Incorporating these miscoded workers into estimates of main job work arrangements nearly doubles the share who are independent contractors to approximately 15% of all workers. Taking these workers into account substantively changes the demographic profile of the independent contractor workforce. Probing in household surveys to clarify a worker’s employment arrangement and identify all low-hours work is critical for accurately measuring independent contractor work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Driving the Gig Economy (2024)
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Abraham, Katharine G., John C. Haltiwanger, Claire Y. Hou, Kristin Sandusky & James Spletzer (2024): Driving the Gig Economy. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 32766), Cambridge, Mass, 48 S.
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"Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more likely to be young, female, White and U.S. born, and to combine earnings from ridesharing with wage and salary earnings. Displaced workers have found ridesharing to be a substantially more attractive fallback option than driving a taxi. Ridesharing also affected the incumbent taxi driver workforce. The exit rates of low-earning taxi drivers increased following the introduction of ridesharing in their city; exit rates of high-earning taxi drivers were little affected. In cities without regulations limiting the size of the taxi fleet, both groups of drivers experienced earnings losses following the introduction of ridesharing. These losses were ameliorated or absent in more heavily regulated markets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour (2024)
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Altenried, Moritz (2024): Mobile workers, contingent labour: Migration, the gig economy and the multiplication of labour. In: Environment and planning. A, Economy and space, Jg. 56, H. 4, S. 1113-1128. DOI:10.1177/0308518X211054846
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"The article takes the surprising exit of the food delivery platform Deliveroo from Berlin as a starting point to analyse the relationship between migration and the gig economy. In Berlin and many cities across the globe, migrant workers are indispensable to the operations of digital platforms such as Uber, Helpling, or Deliveroo. The article uses in-depth ethnographic and qualitative research to show how the latter's exit from Berlin provides an almost exemplary picture of why urban gig economy platforms are strongholds of migrant labour, while at the same time, demonstrating the very contingency of this form of work. The article analyses the specific reasons why digital platforms are particularly open to migrants and argues that the very combination of new forms of algorithmic management and hyper-flexible forms of employment that is characteristic of gig economy platforms is also the reason why these platforms are geared perfectly toward the exploitation of migrant labour. This allows the analysis of digital platforms in the context of stratified labour markets and situates them within a long history of contingent labour that is closely intertwined with the mobility of labour." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 a Pion publication) ((en))
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Constructing Mobilities: The Reproduction of Posted Workers' Disposability in the Construction Sector (2024)
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Bagnardi, Francesco, Devi Sacchetto & Francesca Alice Vianello (2024): Constructing Mobilities: The Reproduction of Posted Workers' Disposability in the Construction Sector. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 38, H. 6, S. 1703-1724. DOI:10.1177/09500170231225622
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"Posted work is often framed as a business model based on social dumping. Widespread regulatory evasion is imputed to regulation’s opacity, firms’ predatory practices and trade unions’ inability to organise posted workers. Isolation and precariousness channel posted workers’ agency into individualized reworking or exit strategies. These perspectives, however insightful, focus either on formal regulations, enforcement actors or host countries ’ institutional settings. Drawing on biographical interviews with Italian construction workers posted abroad, and semi-structured interviews with non-posted workers and stakeholders of the sector in Italy, the article adopts an actor-centred perspective and mobilises the concept of labour regime to show how its disciplining elements operating in the construction sector in Italy stick with workers during their postings and enhance their disposability. Although this sticky labor regime constrains workers’ agency abroad, it remains continuously contested and offers ways for workers to subvert it and improve their employment conditions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Multidimensional employment trajectories and dynamic links with mental health: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2024)
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Balogh, Rebeka, Sylvie Gadeyne, Christophe Vanroelen & Chris Warhurst (2024): Multidimensional employment trajectories and dynamic links with mental health: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. In: Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, Jg. 51, H. 1, S. 26-37. DOI:10.5271/sjweh.4193
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"Objectives Low-quality and precarious employment have been associated with adverse mental health and wellbeing. More evidence is needed on how the quality of employment trajectories – including transitions in and out of unemployment, inactivity, and employment of varying quality – are associated with individuals’ mental health over time. This paper aimed to derive a typology of multidimensional employment trajectories and assess associations with mental health in the UK. Methods Data from waves 1–9 of the UK Household Longitudinal Study were used (2009–2019). Individuals aged 30–40 at baseline were included (N=1603). Using multichannel sequence and clustering analyses, we derived a typology of employment trajectories across employment statuses and four employment quality indicators. We assessed associations with subsequent psychological distress, accounting for baseline mental health. Changes in average General Health Questionnaire scores are described. Results A typology of five trajectory clusters highlighted stable and secure and precarious/low-quality trajectories for both men and women. Women who reported being economically inactive at most waves had higher odds of experiencing psychological distress than did women in ‘standard’ trajectories, regardless of baseline mental health. Women’s scores of psychological distress in the ‘precarious’ group on average increased along their trajectories characterized by instability and transitions in/out of unemployment, before a move into employment. Men who likely moved in and out of unemployment and economic inactivity, with low probability of paid employment, reported increased psychological distress at the end of follow-up. This may partly be due to pre-existing mental ill-health. Conclusion This paper shows the importance of high-quality employment for individuals’ mental health over time. Researchers need to consider dynamic associations between employment quality and mental health across the life-course." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Befristungsbezogene Anerkennungsdefizite junger, verpartnerter Männer und Frauen in Deutschland. In welchem Ausmaß treten sie auf und wie können sie verringert werden? (2024)
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Baron, Daniel (2024): Befristungsbezogene Anerkennungsdefizite junger, verpartnerter Männer und Frauen in Deutschland. In welchem Ausmaß treten sie auf und wie können sie verringert werden? In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Jg. 73, H. 2, S. 109-130. DOI:10.3790/sfo.73.2.109
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"Das Durchlaufen befristeter Beschäftigung zu Beginn der Erwerbslaufbahn geht zumeist sowohl mit vergleichsweise geringen Einkommen als auch hohen subjektiven Unsicherheiten einher. Für die Erklärung damit einhergehender subjektiver Anerkennungsdefizite spielen ungleiche Prekarisierungsrisiken für Frauen und Männer eine wichtige Rolle. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit Befristung bei jungen, verpartnerten Männern und Frauen zu erhöhten Anerkennungsdefiziten führt und ob eine als stabil empfundene (heterosexuelle) Paarbeziehung die empfundenen Anerkennungsdefizite verringert. Die Analysen werden auf Basis einer bundesweiten Stichprobe aus 179 Personen im Alter von 18 bis 35 Jahren durchgeführt, die 2012/13 erhoben wurde als die Entwicklung befristeter Beschäftigung in Deutschland einen Höchststand erreicht hatte Es zeigt sich ein signifikanter, U-förmiger Zusammenhang zwischen Befristungsanteilen an der Erwerbsbiographie und wahrgenommenen Anerkennungsdefiziten für junge, verpartnerte Männer. Bei Frauen ist dieser Zusammenhang statistisch nicht signifikant. Entgegen desintegrations- und anerkennungstheoretischer Annahmen übt eine als stabil wahrgenommene Partnerschaft im Befristungskontext keine hemmende Wirkung auf Anerkennungsdefizite aus. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird für öffentliche Diskursanstöße zu einer paarbezogenen Anerkennungsarbeit in Anbetracht einer sich flexibilisierenden Arbeitswelt plädiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Unemployment insurance for platform workers: Challenges and approaches from a comparative perspective (2024)
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Barrio, Alberto (2024): Unemployment insurance for platform workers: Challenges and approaches from a comparative perspective. In: European Journal of Social Security, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 251-265. DOI:10.1177/13882627241267989
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"This contribution presents an overview of the challenges involved in ensuring that persons performing platform work (as either employees, self-employed, or in a third category) are able to effectively access unemployment insurance protection. It also addresses the specific approaches taken by European countries to tackle these challenges, relying especially on the contributions to this special issue on unemployment protection for the self-employed and platform workers. After presenting a brief definition of platform work, the contribution provides an overview of the main challenges linked to unemployment protection insurance posed by the features of platform work; we use primarily the Council Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed as an evaluative framework. These challenges relate to both formal exclusion (due to classification as self-employed or marginal work) and effective exclusion (due to difficulties meeting minimum work requirements and lack of transparency on algorithmic management and platform work). The contribution then analyses some of the main approaches taken by European countries to address such challenges. Actions targeting platform work comprise (a) employment status reclassification; (b) establishment of a presumption of an employment relationship; (c) the setting of requirements to inform on the use of algorithmic management; (d) facilitation of transparency on platform work information; and (e) exemption from formal social security coverage of some forms of (marginal) platform work. General approaches with consequences for the unemployment insurance protection of platform workers include the application of the same criteria for access to unemployment benefits across employment statuses, as well as greater leniency on these criteria for certain forms of non-standard work. The contribution ends with a conclusion, which highlights the main gaps in unemployment insurance protection for platform work, and discusses avenues for action regarding platform work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Für eine gute Saison: Saisonarbeit in der deutschen Landwirtschaft zwischen Prekarisierung, Regulierung und Politisierung (2024)
Barthel, Georg; Lluis, Conrad;Zitatform
Barthel, Georg & Conrad Lluis (2024): Für eine gute Saison: Saisonarbeit in der deutschen Landwirtschaft zwischen Prekarisierung, Regulierung und Politisierung. (IAQ-Report 2024-09), Duisburg ; Essen, 20 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/82447
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"Die Saisonarbeit in der deutschen Landwirtschaft wird fast ausschließlich von osteuropäischen Wanderarbeiter*innen zu meist prekären Arbeitsbedingungen erbracht. Die Arbeitsverhältnisse in der Landwirtschaft wurden in den letzten Jahren verstärkt seitens des Gesetzgebers reguliert. Allerdings ist unklar, ob diese Regulierungen auch nachhaltige Verbesserungen bewirken. Gleichzeitig politisieren die Saisonarbeitskräfte selbst ihre Arbeitsbedingungen, was sich in vielfältigen Widerstandsformen ausdrückt. Aufgrund fehlender Machtressourcen sind sie jedoch nicht in der Lage, die Arbeitsbedingungen entscheidend zu verbessern. Für eine nachhaltige Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen in der Landwirtschaft müssten Regulierungsansätze des Gesetzgebers, die Interessenvertretungen sowie die Handlungsansätze der Betroffenen selbst stärker ineinandergreifen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Exploring unemployment insurance for the self-employed and platform workers: How to navigate difficult waters? A comparative, conceptual and European perspective (2024)
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Becker, Eleni De, Paul Schoukens & Enzo Weber (2024): Exploring unemployment insurance for the self-employed and platform workers: How to navigate difficult waters? A comparative, conceptual and European perspective. In: European Journal of Social Security, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 97-108., 2024-08-01. DOI:10.1177/13882627241267993
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"This special issue of the European Journal of Social Security explores the complexities of extending unemployment insurance to the self-employed and platform workers in the EU Member States and the steps taken at EU level to enforce the protection offered at national level. Traditionally, social security systems have been designed for standard employment relationships, leaving a typical workers and the self-employed inadequately protected. The European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR), adopted in 2017, and the subsequent 2019 Recommendation on access to social protection have marked a shift towards more inclusive social security frameworks. However, significant gaps in coverage remain, in particular with regard to unemployment protection for the self-employed and platform workers. The special issue is divided into three parts: national perspectives, comparative studies and EU-level discussions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The principle of adequate social protection in the European Pillar of Social Rights: Assessing the instruments used to realise its potential (2024)
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Becker, Eleni De (2024): The principle of adequate social protection in the European Pillar of Social Rights: Assessing the instruments used to realise its potential. In: European Journal of Social Security, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 284-304. DOI:10.1177/13882627241254613
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"Improving the social security protection of atypical workers has been high on the EU agenda in recent years. With the adoption of the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017, the EU wished to break away from a decade of austerity measures. The EU further developed the right to adequate social protection in the Pillar through the Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. This instrument urges EU Member States to ensure adequate access to social protection for workers, regardless of their employment relationship, and the self-employed. As part of the EU's recovery strategy during and after the Covid-19 crisis, several financial instruments were developed to support EU Member States. Through the Temporary Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency, EU Member States received support for job retention schemes. The EU also adopted the Recovery Resilience Facility, which provided grants and loans. Another support instrument was the European Social Fund Plus. This article discusses those recent EU initiatives, focusing on unemployment and the protection of atypical workers and the self-employed. With the introduction of the European Employment Strategy (1997), a closer link was made at EU level between unemployment, increasing labour market participation and activation measures. Less attention was paid to ensuring adequate unemployment protection. In recent years, however, it appears that the EU has been playing an increasing role in providing funding for temporary support and in introducing changes to EU Member States' policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Casualization of work, free riding and institutional distrust: Explaining social protection preferences of platform workers in Germany (2024)
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Beckmann, Fabian, Fabian Hoose, Lara Obereiner & Serkan Topal (2024): Casualization of work, free riding and institutional distrust: Explaining social protection preferences of platform workers in Germany. In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Jg. 70, H. 3, S. 225-247. DOI:10.1515/zsr-2023-0024
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"The social protection of platform workers is widely recognized as a major political challenge but remains vastly understudied. The few existing investigations focus on social protection coverage and the employment status of platform workers, while their social protection preferences remain a black box to date. In this article, we investigate the social protection preferences of platform workers using a mixed methods design based on an online survey (n = 719) and qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 20) with self-employed platform workers in Germany. While the quantitative data indicate that the vast majority of respondents reject compulsory social insurance contributions for platform workers and favour self-employment over dependent employment, the qualitative interviews reveal three main types of explanations for this regulation aversion in different segments of platform work: The casualization of work in the platform economy, free riding on protection derived from ‘regular ’ employment and distrust in established welfare state institutions. Against this background, we discuss challenges for social policies aiming at improving social protection for platform workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter) ((en))
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Robots and firms' labour search: The role of temporary work agencies (2024)
Beneito, Pilar; Wilemme, Guillaume; Vicente-Chirivella, Oscar; Garcia-Vega, Maria;Zitatform
Beneito, Pilar, Maria Garcia-Vega, Oscar Vicente-Chirivella & Guillaume Wilemme (2024): Robots and firms' labour search: The role of temporary work agencies. (Research paper / Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy 2024,02), Nottingham, 55 S.
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"We study the impact of industrial robots on the use of labor intermediaries or temporary work agencies (TWAs) and firm productivity. We develop a theoretical framework where new technologies increase the need for quality match workers. TWAs help firms to search for workers who better match their technologies. The model predicts that using robots increases TWA use, which increases robots' productivity. We test the model implications with panel data of Spanish firms from 1997 to 2016 with information on robot adoption and TWA use. Using staggered difference-in-difference (DiD) estimations, we estimate the causal effects of robot adoption on TWAs. We find robot adopters increase the probability of TWA use compared to non-adopters. We also find that firms that combine robots with TWAs achieve higher productivity than those who adopt robots without TWAs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children's education in Germany (2024)
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Betthäuser, Bastian A., Nhat An Trinh & Anette Eva Fasang (2024): The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children's education in Germany. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 40, H. 6, S. 950-963. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcad073
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"The increasing prevalence of non-standard work and its adverse consequences are well documented. However, we still know little about how common non-standard work is amongst parents, and whether its negative consequences are further transmitted to their children. Using data from the German Microcensus, we document the prevalence and concentration of temporary employment and non-standard work schedules in households with children in Germany. Second, we examine the extent to which variation in this temporal dimension of parental employment is associated with children’s school track. Results show that in about half of all German households with children in lower-secondary school at least one parent has a temporary contract or regularly works evenings or Saturdays. We find that children whose mother always works evenings or Saturdays are substantially less likely to transition to the academic school track. By contrast, we find no significant association between fathers’ non-standard work schedules and children’s school track. We also find no evidence of an association between parents’ temporary employment and children’s school track placement. These divergent findings highlight the importance of disaggregating non-standard work into its specific components and differentiating between mothers' and fathers' non-standard work when investigating the consequences of parental non-standard work for children’s educational and life chances." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions (2024)
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Boeri, Tito & Pietro Garibaldi (2024): Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions. In: Journal of Economic Literature, Jg. 62, H. 3, S. 1143-1185. DOI:10.1257/jel.20231655
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"Temporary employment has spiked in OECD countries over the last 40 years and is now a common feature of their labor market landscape. A large body of empirical literature examines the spread of temporary employment, but no systematic review and interpretation of its findings in light of economic theory exists. This survey aims at filling this gap by interpreting the key empirical results based on the predictions of the macro models in markets with frictions developed to address specific features of temporary employment. Revisions of workhorse models used so far to analyze temporary employment are also suggested." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees (2024)
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Bonet, Rocio, Marta Elvira & Stefano Visintin (2024): Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 38, H. 1, S. 83-102. DOI:10.1177/09500170221103135
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"This article investigates the effect of hiring temporary workers on the voluntary turnover of permanent employees. It argues that inflows of temporary workers erode the working conditions of permanent employees, prompting their voluntary departure. Using a unique panel dataset of individual-level monthly payroll data over an eight-year period in a sample of Spanish companies, a positive association between temporary worker inflows and the voluntary turnover of permanent workers is found. The results are robust to diverse specifications and are strongest for firms in non-manufacturing sectors and for firms that hire proportionally more low-skilled workers, contexts where the hiring of temporary workers may be more disruptive for permanent employees. Since the hiring of temporary workers is unlikely to threaten the employment of permanent employees in the dual labour market of Spain, the results indicate serious disruption costs associated with temporary hiring in organisations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Is part-time employment a temporary 'stepping stone' or a lasting 'mommy track'? Legislation and mothers' transition to full-time employment in Germany (2024)
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Brehm, Uta & Nadja Milewski (2024): Is part-time employment a temporary 'stepping stone' or a lasting 'mommy track'? Legislation and mothers' transition to full-time employment in Germany. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 34, H. 3, S. 354-369. DOI:10.1177/09589287231224607
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"Research on reconciling family and employment debates if maternal part-time employment works as ‘stepping stone’ to full-time employment or as gateway to a long-term ‘mommy track’. We analyze how mothers’ transition from part-time to full-time employment is shaped by changing reconciliation legislations and how this is moderated by reconciliation-relevant factors like individual behaviors and macro conditions. We extend the literature on work–family reconciliation by investigating mothers’ employment behavior after the birth of their last child, i.e., after the family formative phase. We draw upon Germany with its considerable regional and historical heterogeneity. Using event history methods on SOEP-data, we observe mothers who (re)enter part-time employment (i.e., up to 30 weekly working hours) after their last childbirth. Results suggest that the impact of reconciliation legislations depends on the moderation by other factors. Recent reconciliation-friendly legislations may have contributed to the polarization of maternal employment patterns: more and less employment-oriented mothers diverge sooner after childbirth than before. Legislations co-occur with increases both in childcare institutions and part-time culture, but their moderation effects compete. Hence, boosting part-time work as either a ‘stepping stone’ or a ‘mommy track’ requires a deep understanding of the mechanisms behind legislations as well as more explicit policy incentives." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Arbeiten in bioökonomischen Produktionsprozessen: Eine qualitative Analyse von Arbeit und Beschäftigung in Chemie, Landwirtschaft und Pharmazie (2024)
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Brunsen, Hendrik, Agnes Fessler, Yannick Kalff & Hajo Holst (2024): Arbeiten in bioökonomischen Produktionsprozessen. Eine qualitative Analyse von Arbeit und Beschäftigung in Chemie, Landwirtschaft und Pharmazie. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 77, H. 2, S. 89-97. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2024-2-89
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"Die Umstellung auf eine Bioökonomie soll dem menschengemachten Klimawandel entgegenwirken. Für die Betriebe bedeutet dies eine veränderte stoffliche Basis der Produktion. Der Beitrag untersucht qualitativ die bislang nur randständig beachteten Folgen bioökonomischer Produktionsprozesse für die Arbeitenden. Mittels Expert*inneninterviews und Betriebsfallstudien aus der Landwirtschaft, Chemie und Pharmazie werden drei zentrale Herausforderungen im biobasierten Produktionsprozess herausgearbeitet, die sich direkt auf die Arbeitsbedingungen auswirken: Standardisierungsgrenzen durch die ‚natürlich-lebendige‘ Produktionsbasis, eine vergleichsweise schwache Marktposition und ein hoher Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangel. Für die Arbeitenden werden diese Herausforderungen spürbar durch hohe Wissens- und Flexibilitätsanforderungen, eine hohe Arbeitsintensität sowie eine Verstetigung und sogar Ausweitung atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse – und zwar nicht nur für Akademiker*innen. Die Befunde zeigen, dass Ausbildungsberufe, atypische und geringqualifizierte Arbeit ein – bislang unterschätzter – Bestandteil der Bioökonomie sind." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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I Would Like to but I Cannot: What Influences the Involuntariness of Part-Time Employment in Italy (2024)
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Busilacchi, Gianluca, Giovanni Gallo & Matteo Luppi (2024): I Would Like to but I Cannot: What Influences the Involuntariness of Part-Time Employment in Italy. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 173, H. 2, S. 439-473. DOI:10.1007/s11205-024-03339-2
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"Over the last two decades, involuntary part-time (IPT) employment has become a more and more pressing issue in Europe, especially in the southern countries, where IPT today constitutes most part-time employment. Using INAPP-PLUS data and different discrete choice model estimations, this paper aims to shed light on the factors that explain the IPT growth in Italy, focusing on what influences the IPT status at the individual, household and labour market levels. The main hypothesis is that what influences the IPT work derive from a combination of workers’ individual, household, and job characteristics which may engender limited power during the bargaining process. The empirical results, based on gender-specific models, highlight that characteristics associated with the IPT status significantly changed over time, reporting a convergent path between the gender profiles of IPT employment. However, IPT employment for women still appears to be mainly originated from the gendered division of domestic and care tasks, while this phenomenon seems to be mainly driven by the labour demand side for men." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Arbeitsausbeutung im Reinigungsgewerbe: Problemlagen, Hilfestrukturen, Handlungsmöglichkeiten (2024)
Böhme, René;Zitatform
Böhme, René (2024): Arbeitsausbeutung im Reinigungsgewerbe. Problemlagen, Hilfestrukturen, Handlungsmöglichkeiten. (Working paper Forschungsförderung / Hans Böckler Stiftung 333), Düsseldorf, 89 S.
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"Arbeitsausbeutung ist in Deutschland alltägliche Praxis. Zahlreiche Hürden führen dazu, dass es in den seltensten Fällen zur Strafverfolgung der Täter:innen kommt - das macht Ausbeutung zu einem lukrativen Geschäftsmodell. Um dem entgegenzuwirken, sind Bund, Länder und Kommunen aufgefordert, eine Gesamtstrategie zur Bekämpfung von Arbeitsausbeutung zu entwickeln. Diese sollte Erleichterungen bei der Strafverfolgung, quantitative und qualitative Verbesserungen der Kontrollmechanismen sowie eine Stärkung des Hilfesystems umfassen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Do temporary help agencies help? Employment transitions for low-skilled workers (2024)
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Carrasco, Raquel, Ismael Gálvez-Iniesta & Belén Jerez (2024): Do temporary help agencies help? Employment transitions for low-skilled workers. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 90. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102586
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"We investigate the impact of working for a temporary help agency (THA) compared to being directly hired on the employment transitions of low-skilled male temporary workers aged 20 to 45. Using data from Spanish administrative records, we employ competing risk discrete-time duration models to analyze multiple temporary employment spells. Our analysis reveals the importance of accounting for short-duration dependence and workers’ unobserved heterogeneity. We find that, across all durations, agency workers are more likely to transition either to unemployment or to a new THA contract than their direct-hire counterparts. Transitions to permanent positions, although infrequent in our sample, are also more likely for agency workers. Our qualitative findings hold when unobserved heterogeneity is not controlled for. However, this model underestimates the effect of agency contracts on the risk of entering unemployment and overestimates the impact on the probability of re-entering THA. This suggests that positive self-selection plays a relevant role in explaining the higher persistence of THA employment, but not the associated higher risk of unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Job polarization and non-standard work: Evidence from France (2024)
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Charlot, Olivier, Idriss Fontaine & Thepthida Sopraseuth (2024): Job polarization and non-standard work: Evidence from France. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 88. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102534
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"Using annual and quarterly data from the French LFS, we investigate the interplay between the extensive and intensive margins of labor adjustment, job polarization, and non-standard work (N S) along the business cycle. We find that the declines in aggregate work hours during economic downturns can primarily be attributed to the reduction in routine standard employment (R, S) during past recessions in France. We then study the dynamics of routine standard employment, highlighting several key findings: (i) The primary drivers of R,S employment are inflows from routine non-standard work (R, N S) and unemployment. (ii) Individuals who lose R, S jobs are more likely to transition to R, N S positions following a brief period of unemployment. (iii) A majority of transitions within this employment category occur within the same employer, resulting in asymmetric adjustments in individual working hours. This often involves a notable increase in hours following either a contractual upgrade or a change in employer. Finally, we draw a comparative analysis between these findings and the United States, where the dynamics of routine employment appear distinct, despite a similar trend in job polarization." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Subsidized Small Jobs and Maternal Labor Market Outcomes in the Long Run (2024)
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Collischon, Matthias, Kamila Cygan-Rehm & Regina T. Riphahn (2024): Subsidized Small Jobs and Maternal Labor Market Outcomes in the Long Run. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17473), Bonn, 60 S.
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"This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, which are frequently taken up by first-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of propensity score matching and an event study applied to administrative data, we compare the long-run child penalties of mothers who started out in a Minijob employment versus unsubsidized employment or non-employment after birth. We find persistent differences between the Minijobbers and otherwise employed mothers up to 10 years after the first birth, which suggests adverse unintended consequences of the small jobs subsidy program for maternal earnings and pensions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minijobs as stepping stones to regular employment: overall trends and the role of Midijob reforms (2024)
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Collischon, Matthias, Anna Herget & Regina T. Riphahn (2024): Minijobs as stepping stones to regular employment: overall trends and the role of Midijob reforms. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 58, 2024-07-02. DOI:10.1186/s12651-024-00377-8
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"Minijobs are subsidized small jobs below a fixed earnings threshold. Since a reform in 2003, they are viewed as stepping stones to the first labor market. However, the Minijob subsidy generates a ‘Minijob trap’ that causes vast bunching at the Minijob earnings threshold. Therefore, Midijobs were designed to reduce this bunching and to eliminate the ‘Minijob trap’. Midijobs are employments that earn between the Minijob earnings threshold and the Midijob earnings threshold. In this range, Midijobs subsidize social insurance contributions on a sliding scale. This paper describes time trends in the propensity to leave Minijobs for regular employment and studies the role of Midijobs for transitions out of Minijobs. We find a strong increase in transitions from Minijobs to regular employment over time. However, there is no convincing evidence that Midijobs are connected to this development. Instead, behavioral changes and aggregate developments such as the business cycle and a booming labor market may have contributed to this development." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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A model of risk sharing in a dual labor market (2024)
Créchet, Jonathan;Zitatform
Créchet, Jonathan (2024): A model of risk sharing in a dual labor market. In: Journal of monetary economics, Jg. 147. DOI:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103591
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"In OECD countries, the labor market features a coexistence of open-ended, permanent jobs subject to strict employment protection and fixed-term, temporary jobs. This paper studies a search-and-matching model with risk-averse workers and dynamic employment contracts subject to limited commitment. In equilibrium, permanent and temporary jobs coexist when the match quality is sufficiently dispersed: firing costs generate insurance gains implying that permanent contracts are optimal for high-quality matches. Consistent with recent empirical evidence, quantitative analysis of the model shows that temporary contracts crowd out permanent jobs and do not generate employment gains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Navigating the precarious path: Understanding the dualization of the Italian labor market through the lens of involuntary part-time employment (2024)
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Cuccu, Liliana, Vicente Royuela & Sergio Scicchitano (2024): Navigating the precarious path: Understanding the dualization of the Italian labor market through the lens of involuntary part-time employment. In: Papers in Regional Science, Jg. 103, H. 6. DOI:10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100061
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"This article investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its impact on various socio-economic groups and adopting a spatial perspective. The study tests the hypothesis that technological shifts, specifically routine biased technological change (RBTC), and the expansion of household substitution services contribute to IPT growth. There is a widening negative gap in IPT prevalence among marginalized groups - women, young, and less skilled workers. After controlling for sector and occupation, the higher IPT propensity diminishes but remains significant, hinting at persistent discrimination. Additionally, segregation into more exposed occupations and sectors intensifies over time. Leveraging province-level indicators, and using a Partial Adjustment model, there is statistical support for RBTC’s correlation with IPT, especially among women. The impact of household substitution services is notably pronounced for women, highlighting sector segregation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of The Regional Science Association International.) ((en))
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Plattformnutzung durch Solo-Selbstständige: Explorative Befunde und forschungsstrategische Perspektiven (2024)
Depperschmidt, Rina; Matton, Heleen; Probst, Pia; Pongratz, Hans;Zitatform
Depperschmidt, Rina, Heleen Matton, Hans Pongratz & Pia Probst (2024): Plattformnutzung durch Solo-Selbstständige. Explorative Befunde und forschungsstrategische Perspektiven. In: Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, Jg. 33, H. 1-2, S. 3-27. DOI:10.1515/arbeit-2024-0002
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"Plattformarbeit ist für Solo-Selbstständige zu einem wichtigen Erwerbszugang geworden. Dieser Zusammenhang wurde noch wenig untersucht, obwohl der Forschungsstand für beide Erwerbsformen ähnliche Bedingungen ausweist. Mittels einer qualitativen Befragung haben wir die Plattformerfahrungen von 20 Solo-Selbstständigen aus drei Berufsfeldern in vergleichender Perspektive analysiert: Yoga-Lehrer*innen, Sprachlehrer*innen und Creator*innen von Inhalten für die sozialen Medien. Trotz verschiedener Formen der Nutzung von Plattformdiensten sind die Resultate ähnlich: Für kleinere Zusatzeinnahmen ist beträchtlicher Aufwand erforderlich, aber Tools und Informationsangebote der Plattformen machen Arbeitserleichterungen möglich. Die Solo-Selbstständigen erleben viele der aus der Plattformforschung bekannten Abhängigkeiten und verschärften Konkurrenzbedingungen auf Online-Märkten. Nur für wenige Creator*innen führt Plattformarbeit aus einer prekären Selbstständigkeit heraus. Der Beitrag plädiert dafür, die beiden Forschungsfelder stärker zu verbinden und mit institutionellen Absicherungen des solo-selbstständigen Erwerbs auch die Bedingungen von Plattformarbeit zu verbessern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter)
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Skill, Productivity, and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency (2024)
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Dong, Xinwei, Dean Hyslop & Daiji Kawaguchi (2024): Skill, Productivity, and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 42, H. S1, S. S133-S181. DOI:10.1086/728809
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"Firms frequently provide general skill training for workers. Theories propose that labor market frictions entail wage compression, generate larger productivity gains than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivate a firm to offer general skill training, but few studies directly test them. We use unusually rich data from a temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client firms. We find that skill acquired through training and learning by doing increases productivity more than wages, with such wage compression accounting for half of the average 40% productivity growth over 5 years of tenure." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Starting flexible, always flexible? The relation of early temporary employment and young workers employment trajectories in the Netherlands (2024)
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Eberlein, Laura, Dimitris Pavlopoulos & Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal (2024): Starting flexible, always flexible? The relation of early temporary employment and young workers employment trajectories in the Netherlands. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 89. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100861
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"Using register data from Statistics Netherlands (2009–2019), this paper examines whether the first employment contract is related to early career outcomes for a cohort of young workers who entered the Dutch labor market in the period from late 2009–2013. Instead of looking at the timing of isolated transitions between employment states, 6-year-long trajectories are considered to identify differences in early career paths. Applying a Mixture Hidden Markov Model, eight distinct states of employment quality characterized by different contract types and incomes are identified. Transitions between these employment states reveal four early career patterns that differ according to their upward and downward mobility. Our results show that entering the labor market with a permanent contract does not necessarily lead to immediate wage growth, but provides a safeguard against volatile careers with frequent transitions in and out of employment. While entering the labor market with a fixed-term contract facilitates upward mobility, on-call and temporary agency work early in the career may negatively affect long-term labor market integration." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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A longitudinal analysis of the impact of multidimensional precarious employment on the mental health of men and women (2024)
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Ervin, Jennifer, Yamna Taouk, Belinda Hewitt, Tania King & Tinh Doan (2024): A longitudinal analysis of the impact of multidimensional precarious employment on the mental health of men and women. In: Scientific Reports, Jg. 14, H. 1. DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-78843-z
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"This study aimed to investigate the effect of precarious employment (PE) on the mental health of Australians. Building on previous research, we conceptualised PE as a multidimensional construct, accounted for gender differences in the associations, and our modelling strategy addressed the possibility of reverse causality bias. Data was pooled panel data from 15 waves (2005–2019) of the HILDA survey (n = 14,237). Using PCA, we created two multidimensional measures of PE: objective and subjective. Fixed effects (FE) regression models (attending to unmeasured time-invariant confounders) estimated the change in mental health associated with a change in PE, and instrumental variable (IV) analyses (addressing endogeneity bias) obtained an unbiased estimate of effect of subjective PE on mental health (with ordinary least squares (OLS) models as baseline). For both genders, FE models showed that objective and subjective multidimensional PE both had a strong negative association with mental health (stronger for subjective PE). IV analysis indicated OLS models overestimate the relationship between subjective PE and mental health for men but underestimate it for women, providing causal evidence that subjective PE is important for women’s mental health. Overall, findings suggest that targeted PE policies have the potential to provide significant population mental health gains, particularly for working women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Theorizing Labor in the Platform Economy: Labor Restructuring in Historical Perspective (2024)
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Faraoun, Ahlem (2024): Theorizing Labor in the Platform Economy: Labor Restructuring in Historical Perspective. In: Sociology Compass, Jg. 18, H. 11. DOI:10.1111/soc4.70018
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"The rise of the platform economy is one of the most widely debated issues in contemporary studies of work and labor relations. Scholarly work on platform labor has been permeated by claims of radical restructuring, either caused or exacerbated by the disruptive properties of algorithms, networks and data-driven systems of control. However, a growing body of literature has drawn attention to the weaknesses of such claims, highlighting several continuities in the organization of work between the pre-platform and platform economy, including in labor processes and in the regulation of labor-capital relations. This article reviews key theoretical interventions within these areas of the literature, arguing that they eventually point toward the lack of historical distinctiveness of platform labor. It then suggests that a more nuanced and critical understanding of labor restructuring and platformization as part of a process of systemic social change would benefit from engagement with the theory of Uneven and Combined Development (U&CD). This engagement would build on two lines of inquiry: workforce diversity and spatial differentiation in the platform economy. The article concludes that U&CD is a useful meta-theoretical framework to understand change within continuity, accounting for the variegated experiences of platform workers in interconnected spaces of capitalist accumulation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Let's Roll Back! The Challenging Task of Regulating Temporary Contracts (2024)
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Fiaschi, Davide & Cristina Tealdi (2024): Let's Roll Back! The Challenging Task of Regulating Temporary Contracts. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16777), Bonn, 32 S.
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"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 labor force data from 2016 to 2019 and adopt a time-series technique within a Rubin Casual Model (RCM) framework to estimate the causal effect of the reform. We find that the reform was successful in reducing persistence into temporary employment and increasing the flow from temporary to permanent employment, in particular among women and young workers in the North of Italy, with significant effects on the stocks of permanent employment (+), temporary employment (-) and unemployment (-). However, this positive outcome came at the cost of higher persistence into inactivity, lower outflows from unemployment to temporary employment and higher outflows from unemployment to inactivity among males and low-educated workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment? (2024)
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Fukai, Taiyo, Daiji Kawaguchi, Ayako Kondo & Izumi Yokoyama (2024): How do firms attain internal and external flexibility of employment? In: Labour Economics, Jg. 91. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102628
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"While firms in many developed countries increasingly rely on workers with nonstandard contracts, the underlying economic factor distinguishing workers on standard contracts from those on nonstandard contracts is poorly understood. Thus, we explore the asymmetric employment and wage adjustments of these two groups to examine whether differences in the importance of firm–worker relation specificity between the two types of workers is a fundamental source of the heterogeneity. We use unique firm-level panel data that records the number of dispatched workers from temporary help agencies, matched with payroll records. Leveraging the exogenous shock that stems from exchange rate fluctuation and heterogeneous trade exposure among firms, we find that firms absorb temporary shocks by adjusting the number of dispatched workers while refraining from changing the employment of in-house workers. Instead, firms opt to change the wages of in-house workers by adjusting their yearly bonuses, rather than their monthly wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.)((en))
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Im Angesicht der Ungleichstellung: Leiharbeit als Herausforderung für gewerkschaftliche Strategiebildung (2024)
Gallas, Alexander;Zitatform
Gallas, Alexander (2024): Im Angesicht der Ungleichstellung: Leiharbeit als Herausforderung für gewerkschaftliche Strategiebildung. (Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Study 490), Düsseldorf: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, 79 S.
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"Leiharbeit in Deutschland verursacht oft geringere Lohnkosten als eine Festanstellung - und die Aufwendungen, um Arbeitskräfte auszuwählen und wieder loszuwerden, sind geringer. Leiharbeiter:innen verdienen also im Schnitt wesentlich weniger als andere Beschäftigte, und ihre Beschäftigungsdauer ist in vielen Fällen sehr kurz. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, dass Leiharbeit sich normalisiert hat. Sie wird von den Arbeitsagenturen genutzt, um Menschen vorübergehend in Lohn und Brot zu bringen, ohne deren Position auf dem Arbeitsmarkt nachhaltig zu bessern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Einführung der Brückenteilzeit: bislang keine spürbaren Folgen für Teilzeitjobs (2024)
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Gürtzgen, Nicole (2024): Einführung der Brückenteilzeit: bislang keine spürbaren Folgen für Teilzeitjobs. (IAB-Forschungsbericht 02/2024), Nürnberg, 27 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FB.2402
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"Seit der Einführung der so genannten Brückenteilzeit zum 1. Januar 2019 können Beschäftigte ihre vertragliche Arbeitszeit für einen befristeten Zeitraum reduzieren und danach ihre ursprünglich vereinbarte Arbeitszeit wieder aufnehmen. Die Ergebnisse des vorliegenden Beitrages zeigen, dass die Reform bislang nur geringe Veränderungen der Teilzeitbeschäftigung in denjenigen Betrieben (bis 200 Beschäftigten) nach sich gezogen hat, in denen Beschäftigte vom Recht auf Brückenteilzeit Gebrauch machen können. Als von der Reform nicht betroffene Betriebe werden in der vorliegenden Analyse diejenigen Betriebe bezeichnet, die zu Unternehmen mit bis zu 45 Beschäftigten gehören. Als von der Reform betroffen werden in der Studie diejenigen Betriebe betrachtet, wenn sie zu einem Unternehmen gehören, dass mehr als 45 und bis zu 200 Beschäftigte hat. Betriebe, die zu Unternehmen mit mehr als 200 Beschäftigten gehören, waren auch von der Einführung der Brückenteilzeit betroffen, werden jedoch der schlechteren Vergleichbarkeit halber für die vorliegende Untersuchung nicht herangezogen. Der Vergleich der Teilzeitquoten in von der Reform betroffenen und nicht betroffenen Betrieben zeigt, dass die Teilzeitquoten über den gesamten Beobachtungszeitraum, also von 2014 bis 2021, in nicht betroffenen Betrieben höher ausfielen als die in betroffenen Betrieben. Dieser grundsätzliche Niveauunterschied blieb auch nach Inkrafttreten der Brückenteilzeit im Jahr 2019 bestehen. Insgesamt verzeichneten die Betriebe mit Beginn der Covid-19-Rezession einen etwas geringeren Zuwachs der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Teilzeitbeschäftigung. Der geringere Zuwachs ist sowohl bei betroffenen Betrieben zu beobachten (also bei Betrieben, die zu Unternehmen mit mehr als 45 und bis zu 200 Beschäftigten gehören) als auch bei kleineren Betrieben, die von den Regelungen ausgenommen sind. Nach der Reform hat sich jedoch der Zuwachs der Teilzeitbeschäftigung in den Betrieben, in denen Beschäftigte einen Anspruch auf Brückenteilzeit geltend machen können, etwas weniger stark abgeschwächt. Hier ist jedoch zu beachten, dass die Entwicklungen in den Jahren 2020 und 2021 nur schwer von Effekten der durch die Covid-19-Pandemie verursachten Rezession abzugrenzen sind. Insgesamt lässt sich die ermittelte Veränderung für einen Betrieb mit durchschnittlich 200 Beschäftigen dahingehend beziffern, dass über den Gesamtzeitraum nach der Reform die Zunahme an Teilzeitbeschäftigten im Mittel um 1 Person höher ausfällt als bei vergleichbaren nicht betroffenen Betrieben. Diese Zunahme ist jedoch zu gering, als dass die Teilzeitquoten in betroffenen Betrieben mit den höheren Quoten nicht betroffener Betriebe gleichziehen würden. Die sogenannte Zumutbarkeitsregel, welche eine Obergrenze von Umwandlungen in Unternehmen mit mehr als 45 und bis zu 200 Beschäftigten vorsieht, kann diese geringe Veränderung nicht plausibel erklären. Gemäß dieser Regel sind Arbeitgeber, die mehr als 45 und bis zu 200 Beschäftigte haben, verpflichtet, nur einer Person pro 15 angefangenen Beschäftigten einen Anspruch auf Brückenteilzeit zu gewähren. Eine weitere Erklärung könnte darin bestehen, dass die derzeit geltenden Regeln von vielen Beschäftigten als zu unflexibel wahrgenommen werden. So sieht die Regelung zur Brückenteilzeit vor, dass Beschäftigte einen Antrag auf befristete Teilzeit für mindestens ein Jahr und für maximal fünf Jahre stellen können. Während der beantragten Laufzeit ist es zudem nicht möglich, wieder zur ursprünglich vereinbarten Arbeitszeit zurückzukehren. Zudem können die bezifferten Veränderungen während der Covid-19-Rezession möglicherweise auch widerspiegeln, dass Beschäftigte in diesem Zeitraum eine größere Zurückhaltung bei der Reduzierung der Arbeitszeit an den Tag gelegt haben. Inwiefern die Reform im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Erholung einen langfristigen Effekt auf die Inanspruchnahme befristeter Arbeitszeitreduzierungen hat, bleibt daher abzuwarten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Befristungen bei Neueinstellungen 2023: Stand: 10. Mai 2024 (2024)
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Gürtzgen, Nicole, Alexander Kubis & Martin Popp (2024): Befristungen bei Neueinstellungen 2023. Stand: 10. Mai 2024. (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Aktuelle Daten und Indikatoren), Nürnberg, 8 S.
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"Im Rahmen der IAB-Stellenerhebung gaben die Betriebe an, im Jahr 2023 in Deutschland rund 4,7 Mio. sozialversicherungspflichtige Neueinstellungen (ohne Auszubildende und ohne MiniJobs) vorgenommen zu haben. Hiervon waren 26 Prozent, also rund 1,2 Mio. Stellen (zunächst) befristet (Tabelle 1). Die Befristung von Neueinstellungen ermöglicht den Betrieben, die Fähigkeiten von Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern zu überprüfen, bevor ein unbefristetes Arbeitsverhältnis eingegangen wird. Durch den Abschluss von befristeten Arbeitsverträgen können Betriebe ohne langfristige Mittelbindung häufig auch Jobs anbieten, die sonst vielleicht nicht finanzierbar gewesen wären. Darüber hinaus haben Befristungen für Betriebe zudem den Vorteil, dass sie (Entlassungs-)Kosten vermeiden können, die gegebenenfalls im Rahmen des allgemeinen oder tarifvertraglich erweiterten Kündigungsschutzes entstehen können (Bossler et al. 2017). Als weiteres wichtiges betriebliches Motiv für befristete Neueinstellungen ist zudem ein vorübergehender Mehrbedarf an Arbeitskräften etwa infolge temporärer Auftragsspitzen zu nennen (siehe hierzu z.B. Gürtzgen und Küfner 2023). Die Tatsache, dass Betriebe befristete Neueinstellungen vornehmen können, kann u.a. darin begründet sein, dass Betriebe über Marktmacht verfügen, die den Abschluss von befristeten Verträgen erleichtert (Bassanini et al. 2024). Zu beachten ist, dass die Befristungsquoten bei Neueinstellungen deutlich oberhalb des Anteils befristeter Beschäftigung an der Gesamtbeschäftigung liegen. Rund 2,6 Millionen Beschäftigte in Deutschland hatten laut IAB-Betriebspanel im Jahr 2022 einen befristeten Arbeitsvertrag. Das entspricht einem Anteil an allen Beschäftigten (ohne Auszubildende) von 6,6 Prozent (Hohendanner / IAB 2023). Die Diskrepanz zwischen dem Anteil befristeter Neueinstellungen und dem Befristungsanteil aller Beschäftigter zeigt, dass befristete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in nennenswertem Ausmaß in unbefristete Arbeitsverträge umgewandelt werden (Müller et al. 2017)." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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What sustains feminized part-time work at the gender equality frontier? Evidence from a vignette experiment (2024)
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Helgøy, Anna (2024): What sustains feminized part-time work at the gender equality frontier? Evidence from a vignette experiment. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 34, H. 5, S. 542-555. DOI:10.1177/09589287241290751
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"Feminized part-time work has been deemed a family policy conundrum yet to be solved by any welfare regime. To identify ways forward, this article examines structural drivers of part-time work decisions through a vignette experiment fielded in the gender-egalitarian context of Norway (N = 3500). Six theory-grounded factors are tested in this multidimensional, causal framework: partner income level, physical and cognitive household labor burdens, the presence of a part-time culture at the workplace, and consequences of part-time work for career advancement and future pensions. Results show that overall, factors that regulate individuals’ material self-interest (partner income, career and pension consequences) have the largest impact on working-time decisions. Additionally, a priming treatment is given with a split sample concerning the factor of cognitive household labor – the organizational dimension of household work. Results from sub-group analyzes show that non-primed respondents prefer significantly higher working hours when their cognitive labor burden is lower. Respondents who received experimental priming, however, portray the opposite behavior (lower working-hour preference when cognitive labor burden is low). The pattern is driven by women, whereas men are left largely unaffected by both the priming and vignette treatment of cognitive labor. Thus, robust findings imply that gender inequality in material circumstances sustains feminized part-time work patterns. Suggestive evidence further indicates that gender inequality in cognitive labor loads may also contribute to sustaining feminized part-time work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Teilzeitbeschäftigung aus Unternehmenssicht (2024)
Hennrich, Jonas; Schaller, Daria;Zitatform
Hennrich, Jonas & Daria Schaller (2024): Teilzeitbeschäftigung aus Unternehmenssicht. In: Ifo-Schnelldienst, Jg. 77, H. 10, S. 44-48.
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"Das ifo Institut befragt im Auftrag von Randstad Deutschland quartalsweise deutsche HR-Abteilungen zu personalpolitisch relevanten Themen. In jedem Quartal werden in wechselnden Sonderfragen aktuelle arbeitsmarktrelevante Fragestellungen untersucht. Das aktuelle Thema befasst sich mit der Entwicklung der Teilzeitbeschäftigung. Aus verschiedenen Gründen entscheiden sich immer mehr Beschäftigte dazu, ihre Arbeitsstunden zu reduzieren. Neben den Arbeitnehmenden, die freiwillig weniger arbeiten möchten, gibt es auch diejenigen, die ihre Arbeitszeit aufgrund der Pflege eines Angehörigen oder der Kinderbetreuung verringern müssen. Oftmals wird diese auch mit dem Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangel in Verbindung gebracht und als eine der Problemursachen genannt. Damit einhergehend wird häufig die Frage gestellt, wie Mitarbeitende in die Vollzeit zurückgeholt werden können." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Permanently marginalized? Securing living hours among part-time workers in hotels and restaurants in Northern Europe (2024)
Ilsøe, Anna ; Larsen, Trine Pernille ; Trygstad, Sissel ; Nergaard, Kristine ; McMahon, Juliette ; Ryan, Lorraine ;Zitatform
Ilsøe, Anna, Trine Pernille Larsen, Sissel Trygstad, Lorraine Ryan, Kristine Nergaard & Juliette McMahon (2024): Permanently marginalized? Securing living hours among part-time workers in hotels and restaurants in Northern Europe. In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 30, H. 4, S. 421-439. DOI:10.1177/09596801241264643
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"This paper offers a comparative perspective on the wage and working conditions of marginal part-time workers (less than 15 hours per week) in the Danish, Irish and Norwegian hotel and restaurant sector. Each of the three countries belongs to distinct industrial relations models with different sectoral traditions of multi-employer bargaining, political intervention and union strength. We focus on social partner initiatives, over time, covering trade unions, employers and national governments’ unilateral, bipartite or tripartite measures to secure ‘living hours’ for workers with contracts of few hours. Analytically, we seek inspiration from the work on industrial relations regimes by Visser (2009) and combine it with the concept of living hours. We find that social partners have introduced a series of initiatives to secure living hours, notably to protect and increase hourly wages and secure guaranteed weekly working hours. However, while securing minimum wages and income through either bipartite, tripartite or unilateral measures seem relatively successful in all three countries, the attempts to guarantee minimum weekly working hours and thus secure living hours prove more difficult and mainly has had an impact in Denmark." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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An Effective protection against unemployment for self-employed and platform workers? The intriguing case of Denmark (2024)
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Jacqueson, Catherine (2024): An Effective protection against unemployment for self-employed and platform workers? The intriguing case of Denmark. In: European Journal of Social Security, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 140-154. DOI:10.1177/13882627241270473
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"This article discusses whether self-employed and platform workers in Denmark have effective access to the unemployment insurance scheme. The Danish case is intriguing in a comparative context. Unlike other European States, it has been possible in Denmark for the self-employed to formally access the unemployment scheme since 1976. The system is also interesting as it is rather flexible, and was recently adapted to meet the challenges of changing work patterns and an increase in atypical forms of work, such as platform work. Yet, it is argued that important barriers to effective coverage remain. Some barriers, such as the voluntary character of the insurance and its eligibility criteria, are common to all persons with low and irregular work. Other barriers are specific to the self-employed and relate to the conditions for proving the closing down of business, and to waiting periods." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice (2024)
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Jankowski, Krzysztof Z. (2024): Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice. In: The British journal of sociology, Jg. 75, H. 5, S. 715-730. DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.13125
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"Conceptualizing precarity has come to rest on the multi-dimensional and differentiated insecurities of job and worker, this however belies the relationship between structure and experience where precarity originates. To bridge that relationship, I employ the landscape concept to position workers relative to the structural contingency of precarious work. To study this landscape, I conducted an ethnography involving job searching, working, and interviewing workers. While certainly insecure, these jobs displayed parallel characteristics of streamlined hiring and short-notice starts which workers took advantage of. I explore three ideal-typical ‘jobs’—the first, only, and best job—to examine how vulnerability is balanced with contingency to produce precarity. This analysis and the landscape approach locate the political-economic transformation of work in the context of workers' lives and their labor market position. Taking precarious work is an act of balancing one's vulnerabilities in a way that constructs and thus naturalizes precarity. Overall, the article contributes an image of an economy where workers have to be opportunistic in a continual struggle for work while stratified by their personal circumstances and position in this labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Workers with few hours – who secures their social rights? – The role of social dialogue and collective bargaining (2024)
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Larsen, Trine Pernille & Anna Ilsøe (2024): Workers with few hours – who secures their social rights? – The role of social dialogue and collective bargaining. In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 30, H. 4, S. 349-361. DOI:10.1177/09596801241293249
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"This special issue looks at the contributions of social dialogue and collective bargaining to creating, maintaining or reducing the risks associated with employment contracts of few hours, such as marginal part-time work, temporary agency work and zero-hour contracts. It additionally considers changes in welfare institutions with regard to the protection of these groups of workers. In this paper, we introduce the arguments on why and how working in marginal part-time jobs involves vulnerability, and on the differential roles collective bargaining and social protection may have on these jobs, depending in particular on which status (employees, workers or self-employed) they are associated to." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries (2024)
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Latner, Jonathan P. (2024): The effect of transitioning into temporary employment on wages is not negative: A comparative study in eight countries. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 92, 2024-07-22. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100957
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"There remains a lack of clarity about the effect of temporary employment on wages. Using asymmetric fixed effects models with a dummy impact function, we study the wage effects of four distinct transitions: (1) from unemployment into a temporary relative to (2) a permanent contracts; and (3) from temporary into permanent contracts relative to (4) from permanent into temporary contracts. We use panel data from eight countries to examine the effect of these distinct transitions, over time after the transition occurs, and in a cross-national, comparative context. The main finding explains the wage penalty of temporary employment identified by previous research. The negative effect is more accurately understood as the difference between two types of transitions, neither of which are negative, even if transitions from temporary into permanent contracts more positive than transitions from permanent into temporary contracts. There is little difference in the wage effect of transitions from unemployment into temporary relative to permanent contracts. The findings may be counter intuitive, but they are consistent with the theory of equalizing differences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Beggaring Thy Co-Worker: Labor Market Dualization and the Wage Growth Slowdown in Europe (2024)
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Lehner, Lukas, Paul Ramskogler & Aleksandra Riedl (2024): Beggaring Thy Co-Worker: Labor Market Dualization and the Wage Growth Slowdown in Europe. In: ILR review, Jg. 77, H. 5, S. 659-684. DOI:10.1177/00197939241248162
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"As temporary employment has become a pervasive feature of modern labor markets, reasons for wage growth have become less well understood. To determine whether these two phenomena are related, the authors investigate whether the dualized structure of labor markets affects macroeconomic developments. Specifically, they incorporate involuntary temporary workers into the standard wage Phillips curve to examine wage growth in 30 European countries for the period 2004–2017. Relying on individual-level data to adjust for a changing employment composition, their findings show, for the first time, that the incidence of involuntary temporary workers has strong negative effects on permanent workers’ wage growth, thereby dampening aggregate wage growth. This effect, which the authors name the competition effect, is particularly pronounced in countries where wage bargaining institutions are weak. The findings shed further light on the reasons for the secular slowdown of wage growth after the global financial crisis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Automation, Trade Unions and Involuntary Atypical Employment (2024)
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Lewandowski, Piotr & Wojciech Szymczak (2024): Automation, Trade Unions and Involuntary Atypical Employment. (IBS working paper / Instytut Badań Strukturalnych 2024,02), Warszawa, 32 S.
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"We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies - industrial robots, and software and databases - on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 E.U. countries between 2006 and 2018. We combine survey microdata with sectoral information on technology use and exploit the variation at the demographic group level. Using instrumental variables estimation, we find that industrial robots significantly increase atypical employment share, mostly through involuntary part-time and involuntary fixed-term work. We find no robust effect of software and databases. We also show that the higher trade union coverage mitigates the robots ’ impact on atypical employment, while employment protection legislation appears to play no role. Using historical decompositions, we attribute about 1-2 percentage points of atypical employment shares to rising robot exposure, especially in Central and Eastern European countries with low unionisation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Coverage for platform workers and the self-employed in case of unemployment in Switzerland: Access to protection and ways of improvement (2024)
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Magoga-Sabatier, Sabrine (2024): Coverage for platform workers and the self-employed in case of unemployment in Switzerland: Access to protection and ways of improvement. In: European Journal of Social Security, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 198-213. DOI:10.1177/13882627241256003
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"Whether they are self-employed, atypical employees, or self-employed using an umbrella company, there is still almost no social protection against unemployment or partial loss of activity in Switzerland for platform workers. The same can be said for the self-employed in general. This contribution shows that platform workers, irrespective of their exact legal status, and the self-employed in general, risk sanctions for taking on unsuitable work, for being insufficiently available for decent work or unable to prove a loss of income. However hard they try, they cannot even contribute to a voluntary unemployment insurance scheme. We show that the Swiss social protection scheme, a product of years of federal direct democracy, is hardly able to adapt to the fast-moving platform work environment, thus increasing the risks of precariousness and the burden on the cantons' social assistance for the next generation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Subjective Job Insecurity and the Rise of the Precariat: Evidence from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States (2024)
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Manning, Alan & Graham Mazeine (2024): Subjective Job Insecurity and the Rise of the Precariat: Evidence from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 106, H. 3, S. 748-761. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_01196
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"There is a widespread belief that work is less secure than in the past, that an increasing share of workers are part of the “precariat.” It is hard to find much evidence for this in objective measures of job security, but perhaps subjective measures show different trends. This paper shows that in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, workers feel as secure as they ever have in the past 30 years. This is partly because job insecurity is very cyclical and (pre-COVID) unemployment rates very low, but there is also no clear underlying trend towards increased subjective measures of job insecurity. This conclusion seems robust to controlling for the changing mix of the labor force, and it is true for specific subsets of workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))
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Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment (2024)
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Martinez Dy, Angela, Dilani Jayawarna & Susan Marlow (2024): Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment. In: Sociology, Jg. 58, H. 5, S. 1038-1060. DOI:10.1177/00380385241228444
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"This article explains entrepreneurial activity patterns in the United Kingdom labour market using theories of racial capitalism and intersectional feminism. Using UK Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey data 2018–2019 and employing probit modelling techniques on employment modes, self-employment types and work arrangements among differing groups, we investigate inequality in self-employment within and between socio-structural groupings of race, class and gender. We find that those belonging to non-dominant gender, race and socio-economic class groupings experience an intersecting set of entrepreneurial penalties, enhancing understanding of the ways multiple social hierarchies interact in self-employment patterns. This robust quantitative evidence challenges contemporary debates, policy and practice regarding the potential for entrepreneurship to offer viable income generation opportunities by those on the socio-economic margins." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Japan's dual labor market and its macroeconomic characteristics (2024)
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Mizobata, Hirokazu (2024): Japan's dual labor market and its macroeconomic characteristics. In: Empirical economics, Jg. 67, H. 1, S. 165-196. DOI:10.1007/s00181-024-02555-6
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"This study examines the characteristics of Japan's dual labor market, which consists of standard and non-standard employment. I conduct labor stock and flow analyses using Japanese Labour Force Survey data from 2002 to 2022. The stock analysis suggests that, in the long run, non-standard employment improves labor market conditions, such as employment and unemployment rates. Changes in the composition of standard and non-standard employment reduce the average hours per worker in the long run but play a limited role over the business cycles. The flow analysis reveals that inflows and outflows involving non-standard employment have relatively significant effects on changes in employment and unemployment rates. This feature of non-standard employment is more pronounced for females and young individuals. The flow analysis also shows that within-employment reallocation, that is, transitions between standard and non-standard employment, primarily determines the changes in the share of non-standard employment. The sluggish movement between these two types of contracts leads to a persistently high level of non-standard employment in Japan." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Atypical work and residence in cross-border situations: The coordination of unemployment benefits (2024)
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Mišič, Luka & Grega Strban (2024): Atypical work and residence in cross-border situations: The coordination of unemployment benefits. In: European Journal of Social Security, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 266-283. DOI:10.1177/13882627241255023
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"This article analyses the potential challenges related to the coordination of unemployment benefits under European Union law for persons whose employment or other economic activities and living arrangements are, in one way or another, dispersed across the territories of several EU Member States. Starting from the traditional cases of frontier workers and other cross-border (or mobile) workers, on the one hand, and remote work or telework, on the other, the article looks at the potential future of free movement in the EU under Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004 and its implementing regulation, Regulation (EC) No. 987/2009. New forms of work and work organisation, alongside new mobility and residency patterns, challenge the basic rules of lex loci laboris (the country of employment is competent) and lex loci domicilii (the country of residence is competent), especially when they collide in a single case. At the same time, unemployment benefits, which are at the heart of this debate, still remain subject to specific coordination (e.g. competence) rules that depart from the general legislation, possibly making effective provision in such cases even more difficult. The article gives a diverse collection of theoretical examples in which cross-border situations are either in themselves atypical and complex, or accompanied and made possible by new forms of work or work organisation, causing specific problems for the adequate and appropriate provision of unemployment benefits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Essays on institutions in health care and labor markets (2024)
Müller-Rehm, Rebekka;Zitatform
Müller-Rehm, Rebekka (2024): Essays on institutions in health care and labor markets. (Untersuchungen zur Wirtschaftspolitik 145), Köln, 145 S.
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"Dieser Band der Untersuchungen zur Wirtschaftspolitik ist institutionellen Besonderheiten des Gesundheitswesens und von Arbeitsmärkten gewidmet. Gesundheits- und Arbeitsmärkte unterliegen aus guten Gründen einer stärkeren Regulierung als andere Märkte: Der Schutz von Patient*innen und Arbeitnehmer*innen genießt in unserer Gesellschaft hohe Priorität. Die Wirkung der Regulierung auf diesen Märkten zu verstehen, ist nicht zuletzt deshalb wichtig, weil sie in besonderem Maße von Entwicklungen betroffen sind, die sich der Kontrolle der politischen Entscheidungsträger*innen weitegehend entziehen, z.B. dem demografischen Wandel, dem technologischen Fortschritt und dem damit verbundenen Wandel hin zu einer Dienstleistungsökonomie. Im ersten Teil geht es um Plattformarbeit, das heißt um Arbeitsaufträge, die ortsunabhängig über digitale Plattformen abgewickelt werden. Da häufig die Befürchtung geäußert wird, dass Arbeitgeber Plattformarbeit nutzen, um Arbeitsmarktregulierung zu umgehen, liegt der Fokus auf dem Zusammenhang zwischen der Nachfrage nach Plattformarbeit und der Stärke des Kündigungsschutzes in OECD-Staaten. Im zweiten Teil werden die Niederlassungsentscheidungen von Hausärzt*innen in unterversorgten Gebieten in Deutschland untersucht, wobei nach Geschlecht und zwischen Einzel- und Gemeinschaftspraxen differenziert wird. Auf dieser Grundlage werden zwei Regulierungsszenarien simuliert: eine Angleichung der Vergütung von für die Behandlung von gesetzlich- und privatversicherten Patient*innen und eine striktere Begrenzung der Zulassung in überversorgten Gebieten. Der dritte Teil ist unfreiwilliger Teilzeitarbeit gewidmet. In Zeiten konjunkturellen Abschwungs reduzieren viele Arbeitgeber in eher liberalen Arbeitsmärkten, wie in den USA und in Großbritannien, die Arbeitszeit ihrer Beschäftigten, was zu einem Anstieg unfreiwilliger Teilzeitarbeit führt. Das wirft die Fragen auf, ob die striktere Regulierung in Deutschland, die eine einseitige Reduzierung der Arbeitszeit durch den Arbeitgeber untersagt, einen solchen Anstieg unfreiwilliger Teilzeitbeschäftigung in konjunkturellen Abschwungphasen verhindert und wie die Regulierung die Marktanpassungsmechanismen verändert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Temporary agency employment: A supplement to regular jobs – under certain circumstances (2024)
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Neumann, Uwe (2024): Temporary agency employment: A supplement to regular jobs – under certain circumstances. In: Competition and Change, Jg. 28, H. 2, S. 359-378. DOI:10.1177/10245294231221884
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"In countries with strict employment protection legislation, firms may seek to replace regular by atypical jobs in order to cut wages or to become more flexible. In Germany, the number of unprotected temporary jobs is comparatively low. During the past decades, temporary agency employment, however, has increased considerably and the share of agency workers is now above the EU average. Using German establishment data, the analysis draws on longitudinal (generalized method of moments) and cross-sectional (matching and difference in differences) methods to evaluate whether agency workers replaced or supplemented regular workers during and after the Great Recession of 2008/2009. The study finds that hiring (more) agency workers made it possible for user firms among Germany’s core manufacturing industries to employ a larger number of regular workers at the same time. In specific sectors and regions, temp agencies therefore provided an alternative to government-sponsored instruments such as short-time work schemes. Obviously, from the view of workers, many disadvantages remain, even more so as it is rare for temp spells to offer a stepping stone into regular employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter? (2024)
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Nguyen, Ngoc Hân, Wendy Smits & Mark Vancauteren (2024): Fixed-term contracts and firm productivity: Do workers’ skills and firm conversion rates from fixed-term to permanent contracts matter? In: International Journal of Manpower, Jg. 45, H. 10, S. 144-161. DOI:10.1108/ijm-03-2024-0194
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"Purpose: We aim to elucidate the relationship between fixed-term employment and firm productivity by examining workers’ skills and considering how firm-level conversion rates influence this relationship. Design/methodology/Approach: We use longitudinal employer-employee data between 2011 and 2017 in the Netherlands to estimate a nonlinear regression derived from a production function proposed by Addessi (2014) and Castellani et al . (2020). Findings: The contribution of fixed-term contracts to firm-level productivity is less than that of permanent contracts. However, this contribution is greater when firms exhibit a high conversion rate from fixed-term to permanent positions. The effect of the conversion rate is more substantial for high-skilled fixed-term workers than for low-skilled ones. Originality/value: Our results suggest the extent to which firms benefit from fixed-term contracts when these are used for screening high-skilled workers for permanent employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))
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Verbot der Leiharbeit in der Pflege (2024)
Noffz, Annette;Zitatform
Noffz, Annette (2024): Verbot der Leiharbeit in der Pflege. In: Nachrichtendienst des Deutschen Vereins für öffentliche und private Fürsorge, Jg. 103, H. 8, S. 342-346.
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"Zwar sagt man der Pflegebranche Zukunftssicherheit nach, denn solange es Menschen gibt, wird es auch kranke und pflegebedürftige Menschen geben. Um diese Menschen aber entsprechend pflegen zu können, braucht es geeignetes Personal. Dieses fehlt aus vielen Gründen in zunehmendem Maße." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Deconstructing ageism among older informal workers: a systematic review (2024)
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Oteng, Samuel Ampadu, Padmore Adusei Amoah & Genghua Huang (2024): Deconstructing ageism among older informal workers: a systematic review. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 44, H. 9/10, S. 918-939. DOI:10.1108/IJSSP-03-2024-0117
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"Purpose: This study aims to conduct a systematic review of existing literature on ageism among older informal workers, as most studies have focused on formal work settings. Specifically, it seeks to identify the scope and characteristics of ageism that older informal workers encounter and its influence on their work and well-being. Design/methodology/approach This paper follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) framework to conduct a systematic review. Eleven studies from six databases were included and thematically analysed. Findings The findings revealed four main themes: the contextual nature of ageism, dimensions of work-related ageism, navigating work-related challenges, and effects on well-being. These themes highlight that, despite being perceived as experienced and reliable, older informal workers face exclusion from work opportunities as they are perceived as unproductive and less capable of acquiring new skills. These negative perceptions significantly impacted their willingness to continue working and overall well-being. Practical implications The findings offer an overview of extant research and the direction for future research and policy interventions to address ageism among older informal workers. The findings are crucial for enhancing older workers' quality of life, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where population ageing is the fastest. Originality/value This study is one of the few to systematically explore and evaluate empirical evidence on ageism in the informal work sector. It thus expands existing knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon of ageism in a least explored context." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))
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Atypische Beschäftigung insgesamt
- Gesamtbetrachtungen
- Erosion des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses
- Prekäre Beschäftigung
- Politik, Arbeitslosigkeitsbekämpfung
- Arbeits- und Lebenssituation atypisch Beschäftigter
- Betriebliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Rechtliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Gesundheitliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Beschäftigungsformen
- Qualifikationsniveau
- Alter
- geographischer Bezug
- Geschlecht