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Temporary Agency Work and Trade Unions in Comparative Perspective
SAGE Open, 2015 The article examines local union approaches toward temporary agency work in Belgium and Germany. Heterogeneous plant-level use of temporary work is explained by differences in collective bargaining, together with representation structures and rights for ...
Nadja Doerflinger, Valeria Pulignano
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Temporary Agency Work: A Study of Restaurant Work in Finland
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 2022 Ever expanding use of temporary agency work (TAW) easily attracts irresponsible actors on the business field in the hopes of making big profits and many narratives frame the emergence of contingent agency work as a positive evolution for employers and ...
N. Cajander +3 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The vulnerable situation of temporary agency workers is manifested in previous research that evidences the job insecurity of this group. However, research shows that this insecurity is due to the temporary nature of employment contracts for this group of
Kristina Håkansson, Tommy Isidorsson
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