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The new role of temporary agency work in Germany

Spermann, Alexander - 2011

This paper reviews the development of temporary agency work after its deregulation in the context of the so-called Hartz reforms in Germany. The new role of agency work emerges from its enormous growth after deregulation, the intense use of agency work by big stock-listed companies and upcoming...

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Temporary Employment Agencies : A Route for Immigrants to Enter the Labour Market?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004

We study immigrants in temporary employment agencies in Sweden using a unique data set that covers all aged 16-64 who … were employed by temporary employment agencies (TEAs) in Sweden in November 1999, with information on their employment …, and women are less overrepresented among those born outside of Sweden. The immigrants are overrepresented among those with …

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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Wadensjö, Eskil; Andersson, Pernilla - 2004

Sweden as an example, but the Swedish experience is not unique. Other countries have similar and in many cases more of those …

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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 - 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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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007

Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...

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Identifying the substitution effect of temporary agency employment

Jahn, Elke J.; Weber, Enzo - 2012

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

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A price for flexibility? The temp agency wage gap in Sweden 1998 - 2008

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2012

Temporary agency employment has grown rapidly in Sweden as in many other countries. The sector was deregulated in the …

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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil?s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...

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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Lemos, Sara - 2004

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal sector, where most of the poor are. Extending the understanding of minimum wage effects both in...

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