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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 status in 1998 and 2000. We find that young people, women,...
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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment
Wadensjö, Eskil; Andersson, Pernilla - 2004
In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the...
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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 early 1990s and there are now only few remaining restrictions. Even though there are collective agreements covering a large part of the workers in the sector, the unions are...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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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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Looking beyond the bridge: How temporary agency employment affects labor market outcomes
Jahn, Elke J.; Rosholm, Michael - 2010
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages...
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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287680
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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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