Temporary agency work (TAW) is believed to facilitate the matching between firms and on-the-job searchers. This leads to shortening of the unemployment and job search duration. On the other hand, firms that hire temporary workers have less incentive to train them, which makes it difficult for...

Temporary agency work (TAW) is believed to facilitate matching between firms and job searchers, which results in shortening the unemployment and job search duration. On the other hand, as firms hiring temporary workers have less incentive to train them, it is difficult for low-skilled temporary...

The aim of this paper is to test whether or not a temporary help service (THS) job benefits workers in Japan. By applying the average treatment effect on the treated estimation and its sensitivity tests to the Japanese survey data, we obtained the following findings. First, we observed no...