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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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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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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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Non-standard employment and mortality in Belgian workers: A census-based investigation
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021 OBJECTIVES: Evidence is growing that non-standard employment is associated with adverse health. However, little is known about the relationship between different non-standard employment arrangements and subsequent all-cause and cause-specific mortality ...
Rebeka Balogh +2 more
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Insights into Heterogeneity of Temporary Agency Work in Restaurants [PDF]
International Journal of Business and Administrative Studies, 2021 The term temporary work is an umbrella term comprising a wide variety of atypical employment forms. This study focuses on temporary agency work in restaurants characterized by a third-party involvement in the working relationship. Data was collected through a questionnaire based on the Organizational Commitment and QPS Nordic questionnaires, both of ...
Cajander Niko, Reiman Arto
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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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Vulnerability of “Agency Workers” and the Need for Their Protection
Collection Regional Law Review, 2023 Temporary-work agencies present in the labor market worldwide as a result of the flexibilization of work, economic crises, globalization, and digitalization, as well as the unemployment.
Jovana Rajić Ćalić
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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment [PDF]
, 2012 This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by ...
Weber, Enzo, Jahn, Elke J., Jahn, Elke
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Temporary Agency Work as a Means of Achieving Flexicurity?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 After decades of debate about flexibility, flexicurity has become a new buzzword in working life. Flexicurity refers to both the employer’s demand for flexibility and the employee’s demand for security. Thus, the idea is to solve the flexibility–security
Kristina Håkansson +2 more
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Temporary the Agency Work in Russia: the Past, the Present, and the Future
Московский журнал международного права, 2015 The paper discusses the use of the temporary agency work (contingent labor) in Russia. From 1 January 2016 enters into force the Federal Law № 116-FZ dated May 5, 2014, which regulates the issues of temporary agency work, personnel providing as well as ...
Tatiana A. Gorlovskaya
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