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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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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262231
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Union threat and non-union employment: A natural experiment on the use of temporary employment in British firms
Salvatori, Andrea - 2011
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification strategy exploits an exogenous variation in union threat induced in the UK by new legislation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278638
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261914
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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004
?s participation and reduce the cost of working. However the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility … in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account. We analyze a model of labor supply and … fertility, using data from the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) for the period 1994-2000, merged with regional data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262024
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The Effect of Child Care and Part Time Opportunities on Participation and Fertility Decisions in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela - 2002
of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262820
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261849
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282264
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Diploma No Problem : Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2004
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower … offering at a positive price lower quality than the public school can be an equilibrium. The calibrated parameters for Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262077
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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? Evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009
the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271297