Search Results - subject:"temporary work agencies"

Nunziata, Luca; Staffolani, Stefano - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

regulations, and legislation on temporary work agencies, and we present some empirical evidence as regards total, female and young … beneficial effect on temporary as well as permanent employment among young people; flexible regulations on temporary work … agencies have a positive impact on temporary employment, while they may reduce permanent employment. …

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Contingent Employment in the Netherlands

Pot, F.; Koene, Koene, B.A.S.; Paauwe, Paauwe, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2001

In the last decade the Dutch labour market has demonstrated an admirable capacity to generate jobs. Consequently, the unemployment rate has significantly decreased. However, the newly generated jobs are a-typical in the sense that they are not full-time jobs based on open-ended contracts....

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Contingent Employment in the Netherlands

Pot, F.; Koene, B.A.S.; Paauwe, J. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001

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Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Regulation and the Emergence of Temporary Work Agencies

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008

Labour market regulations aimed at enhancing job-security are dominant in several OECD countries. These regulations seek to reduce dismissals of workers and fluctuations in employment. The main theoretical contribution is to gauge the effects of such regulations on labour demand across...

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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995–2000

Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage penalty, if any, for workers in TAW. Secondly, we analyze...

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From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Ichino, Andrea; Mealli, Fabrizia; Nannicini, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the...

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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...

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Il lavoro interinale in Italia: uno sguardo all'offerta

Iacus, Stefano Maria; Porro, Giuseppe - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2002

L'esame dell'archivio amministrativo di una delle maggiori società di fornitura di lavoro interinale consente di osservare le specificità dell'offerta di lavoro temporaneo, rimaste in ombra negli studi realizzati finora sul lavoro temporaneo in Italia. I dati esaminati sono relativi alla fase...

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