growth of temporary work, stressing the need to invest in training of temporary workers. Even though training has largely … been ignored by temporary work agencies (TWAs), they can improve their performance by training temporary workers …. Investment in such training pays off through higher fees and increased attractiveness of the agencies for workers and clients …

This paper studies the probability of receiving employer-paid training and training independently of who finance it for … Chile reduces the probability of receiving employer-paid training. We also find that this deficit is not compensated by … other types of training. This finding is important for two reasons. First, the proportion of temporary workers that obtain …

Several studies have shown that employees with temporary contracts have lower training participation than those with …, less likely to participate in formal training activities. In addition, we find evidence for complementarity between … training and informal learning for both temporary and permanent employees. Our findings suggest that temporary employment need …

extensive use of temporary workers. Furthermore, these effects are at work only for the use of non-training temporary contracts …, while training temporary contracts are not affected by unions, volatility and their interplay. We argue that this occurs … because non-training temporary contracts can be used by firms as a buffer stock to cope with uncertainty and by unions to …

overeducated for the work they do (chapter 4), that temporary workers receive less employer-funded training (chapter 5), that …

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 previously unemployed, paid work in combination with training should lead …

Firms frequently provide general skill training to workers at the firm's cost. Theories proposed that labor market … firms. We first document that the firm provides upfront training, and show that both workers' tenure and the initial fee … charged to clients are positively related to the length of training, but the initial wage paid to workers is not. We then …

employment protection invest more in training, but also use temporary contracts to enhance labor flexibility. Using a difference …