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The emergence of temporary work agencies
Oxford Economic Papers, 2006A striking feature of OECD labour 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 show that the improvement in the matching efficiency of agencies led to the emergence and growth of temporary ...
Michael Neugart, Donald Storrie
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Temporary Agency Work and Work Precariousness
2020This chapter analyses the ‘work experience’ dimension of the interviewees in order to highlight the types of disadvantages they experienced at the workplace and how these were perceived in relation to those of standard workers. In line with the previous chapter, the chapter begins with a description of the institutional framework associated with work ...
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Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work
2014Over the past two decades the use of flexible employment relations has increased in most developed countries. The growth of temporary agency work constitutes a significant component of this development. Organizations are now facing the challenges of managing a ‘blended workforce’, i.e. a workforce consisting of both direct hires and contractors.
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Temporary Agency Work in Europe
European Labour Law Journal, 2016Eight years after the EU Directive on temporary agency work was enacted the author carries out a broad comparison to investigate the process of implementation and the impact on the relevant national legislations. In particular, the article focuses upon the two main axes underlying the directive and resulting from the compromise that allowed its ...
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Temporary Agency Workers Work ‘Temporarily’
European Labour Law Journal, 2016Articles 1(1) and 3(1 b)-e)) of Directive 2008/104/EC state that temporary agency workers work temporarily under the supervision and direction of the user undertaking. Section 1(1) 2 AUG, introduced in order to transpose Articles 1(1) and 3(1 b)-e)) of the Directive, states that temporary agency workers are temporarily assigned to user undertakings ...
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Temporary Agency Work and Employment Protection
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016Using a unique panel database, we identify volatility and plant size as relevant characteristics associated with the intensive and extensive margins of using temporary agency workers (TAW). We also evaluate the effects of a regulation that increased the regulatory burden on TAW. We find a negative impact of this regulation on a plant’s total employment
Alejandro Micco, Pablo Munoz
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Temporary Agency Work and Income Precariousness
2020This chapter discusses the income protection experience of TA workers. As for the other chapters, it starts by describing the institutional framework in relation to income protection. As regards institutional divides in social protection, the countries broadly reflect the characteristics of their respective welfare regimes.
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Temporary agency work and HRM in Australia
Personnel Review, 2006PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the management of agency workers in Australia and, in particular, to identify the challenges presented to HRM by agency work.Design/methodology/approachAfter briefly reviewing the data on the incidence and growth of agency work in Australia, this paper examines the role of agency work in Australia from the
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