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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - 2008

Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help...

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Böheim, René - 2010

Whereas there is widespread belief that workers in temporary help services (THS) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy, there is little evidence on whether that is driven by the sector per se or by the workers'...

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way Out of Poverty?

Autor, David H.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2021

The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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Teenage Unemployment : Permanent Scars or Temporary Blemishes?

Ellwood, David T. - 2021

for Markov type persistence and a straight forward estimation technique results. In addition, a Sims type causality test …

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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

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Outsourcing at Will : Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment

Autor, David H. - 2021

The U.S. temporary help services (THS) industry grew at 11 percent annually between 1979 to 1995, five times more rapidly than non-farm employment. Contemporaneously, courts in 46 states adopted exceptions to the common law doctrine of employment at will that limit employers' discretion to...

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The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

Estevão, Marcello M.; Lach, Saul - 2022

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported an extraordinary increase in temporary help supply (THS) employment during the late 1980s and the 1990s. However, little is known about the venues where these THS employees actually work. Our estimates indicate that the proportion of THS employees in...

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Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy

Bisin, Alberto - 2019

dimensions, exploring in detail the role of fertility, and possibly divorce in the integration process. We exploit rich … administrative demographic data on the universe of marriages formed in Italy, as well as birth and separation records from 1995 to …, identifying marital selection and fertility choices as fundamental socialization mechanisms. The estimated cultural intolerance of …

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From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles : Fertility Decline Among European Catholics

Berman, Eli - 2012

Catholic countries of Europe pose a demographic puzzle -fertility is unprecedentedly low (total fertility=1.3) despite …. We use differential declines in service provision --measured by nuns/capita-- to identify its effect on fertility …) has no effect for Protestants, but predicts fertility decline for Catholics. The data suggest that service provision and …

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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing, Marriage, and Tax Filing Behavior : Evidence from Tax Data

Heim, Bradley - 2017

We use panel U.S. tax data spanning 2008-2013 to study the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) young adult provision on two important demographic outcomes—childbearing and marriage. The impact on childbearing is theoretically ambiguous, as gaining insurance may increase access to...

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