1st Edition

Labour Market Efficiency in the European Union Employment Protection and Fixed Term Contracts

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies have been far from those expected. This study provides a country by country overview of the legal regulations concerning employment protection and fixed-term employment in the twelve Member... Read more
List of figures and tables, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Legal and economic theories of labour market regulation, 3 Employment protection systems and the regulation of fixed-term contracts in the European Union, 4 Fixed-term employment patterns in the European Union, 5 Multivariate analysis of country patterns, 6 Fixed-term contracts and their relationship to macro-economic conditions, 7 Conclusions, Appendix, Notes, References, Index of authors cited, Subject index

Biography

Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski, Klaus Schömann