Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...

Das Diskussionspapier bietet eine Zusammenfassung der Literatur zu den Beschäftigungsformen Werkverträge, Leiharbeit und Solo-Selbstständigkeit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Branchenspezifika und die empirischen Ergebnisse der jeweiligen Studien. Von zentraler Bedeutung sind die Fragen nach dem...

Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...

Fitting duration models on an inflow sample of jobs in Germany starting in 2002-2010, this paper investigates the impact of employers' use of temporary agency work on regular workers' job stability. In line with dual labour market theory, I find that non-temp jobs are significantly more stable...

Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions' rents, firms' profits and employment. It is shown that trade...

Bisherige Studien zur Leiharbeit haben sich primär mit den Arbeitsbedingungen sowie den strategischen Einsatzgründen der Leiharbeit befasst. In diesem Beitrag wird versucht, erste Erkenntnisse zum Leistungsverhalten von Leiharbeitnehmern zu erhalten. Der Arbeitsmarkt für Profifußballer...

The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural approach using a representative dataset of German...

Temporary agency work has expanded in most advanced economies since the 1990s, but its growth has been controversial. Some argue that these jobs offer experience and contact with potential employers, serving as a path to regular employment, particularly for low-skilled workers. Others view them...

Temporary workers make up a sizeable part of the labor force in many countries and typically receive wages that are significantly lower than their permanent counterparts. This paper uses an efficiency wage model to explain the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers. High-performing...

Im Jahr 2010 wechselten gut 230.000 Personen, die zuvor in der Arbeitnehmerüberlassung tätig waren, in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld I. Ihr Anteil an allen Zugängen in den Leistungsbezug nach SGB III betrug 11 Prozent. Von den zuvor vollzeitbeschäftigten Personen kamen 79 Prozent aus dem...

Leiharbeit wird seit längerem immer häufiger genutzt, um Personalausfälle bzw. Auftragsspitzen abzufedern, aber auch um sich strategisch gegen unsichere Absatzmärkte abzusichern. Neuerdings scheint darüber hinaus der Einsatz von Werkverträgen an Bedeutung zu gewinnen. Daraus ergeben sich...

Untersucht wurden Beschäftigungsbedingungen der Leiharbeit (LA) sowie Übergänge von Arbeitslosigkeit (AL) in LA und Beschäftigung außerhalb der LA. Es wurde versucht das Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit auf die LA anzuwenden mit einem Betrachtungszeitraum von 2001 bis 2012 und unter Nutzung...

While many previous studies on temporary work have found disadvantages for temporary workers as compared to workers with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper investigates the potential integrative power of taking up...

The varieties of capitalism approach (VoC) and the related research assume that German firms adopt an internal flexibility profile that corresponds with the national institutional framework. Recent empirical studies, however, have found substantial diversity in realized firm-level strategies....

Sector-specific surcharge collective labor agreements between the bargaining partner in the staffing industry allow for a reduction of wage gaps between agency workers and permanent staff in case of long-term job assignments to user companies. Stepwise surcharges up to 50% after a surcharge-free...

It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a nationally...