We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for … outsourcing. Adverse effects on compensation are clearest when companies substitute agency temporaries or contract company workers …, organizations only contract out management functions or utilize agency temporaries for brief periods of time, with little direct …

Workers in flexible staffing arrangements - including temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract …

Using a unique panel data set of privatised cement firms in Turkey, we test the hypothesis that privatisation and firm … relationship between privatisation and firm performance, we find that: i) private sector increases the output in the medium … of labour growth on productivity is less severe during the privatised period, and iv) the likelihood of the privatisation …

of which privatisation of key government assets was a major component. Government owned banks and insurance offices were … financial sector that has influenced the outcome of the privatisation process in the financial sector. …