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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The concept of liminality refers to the experience to be betwixt-and-between social structures and the associated positions, statuses, and roles. We advance the original use of the concept by introducing the various meanings that the experience of being ...
Ingo Winkler, Mustafa Khalil Mahmood
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AHFE International, 2021 In temporary agency work (TAW), the temporary work agency and theuser company have employer responsibilities related to the occupational safetyand health of the temporary agency workers. The aim of the study was to inves-tigate strengths and development needs in TAW as perceived by managers oftemporary work agencies.
Mattila, Susanna +5 more
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Administrative Sciences, 2022 Temporary workers already represent a relevant percentage of the total workforce in several European countries. This type of employment is usually associated with more precarious contractual and working conditions.
Pedro Ferreira, Sofia Gomes
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Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2022 This article addresses the impact of temporary employment on workers’ social identification, work motivation, and reactions to injustice at the workplace.
Florent Lheureux, Clément Parmentier
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IZA World of Labor, 2014 Temporary agency work has expanded in most advanced economies since the 1990s, but its growth has been controversial. Some argue that these jobs offer experience and contact with potential employers, serving as a path to regular employment, particularly for low-skilled workers.
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Economies, 2023 This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers.
Christian Pfeifer, Jens Mohrenweiser
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Employment Protection and Temporary Work Agencies [PDF]
LABOUR, 2008 AbstractEmployers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services provided by temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment.
Baumann, Florian +2 more
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Temporary Work Agencies and Equilibrium Unemployment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 A striking feature of OECD labor markets in the 1990s has been the very rapid increase of temporary agency work. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model as developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work agencies in order to focus on their role as matching intermediaries and to examine the aggregate impact on employment.
Neugart, Michael, Storrie, Donald
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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of temporary agency work prior to the crisis.
Baumgarten, Daniel, Kvasnicka, Michael
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PRACA TYMCZASOWA W ŚWIETLE PRAWA WSPÓLNOTOWEGO
Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2017 Temporary Agency Work in EU Legislation Summary The article is about the history of the temporary agency work in EU Legislation. The temporary agency work is an increasingly significant form of employment It involves a triangular arrangement in which ...
Anna Reda
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