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 a

Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski, Klaus Schömann

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