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Temporary employment and health: a review [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2005 We aimed to review evidence on the relationship between temporary employment and health, and to see whether the association is dependent on outcome measure, instability of employment, and contextual factors.We systematically searched for studies of temporary employment and various health outcomes and critically appraised 27 studies.The review suggests ...
Marianna Virtanen +2 more
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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 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 Employment as a Way out of Poverty? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty.
Susan Houseman, David Autor
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Temporary Employment and Family Formation: An Income or Insecurity Effect? [PDF]
European Sociological Review, 2021 Abstract Recent studies show that temporary workers postpone family formation transitions, but it remains unclear whether this effect is due to the lower income or the stronger perceptions of job insecurity that go with a temporary contract.
Daniël C van Wijk +2 more
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How temporary is temporary employment in Spain? [PDF]
Journal of Labor Research, 1998 We use the Spanish Labor Force Survey (EPA) for the period 1987-1996 to study trends, characteristics, and labor force transitions of temporary workers. These are workers who hold fixed-term contracts, which the Spanish labor law distinguishes from indefinite contracts. Since the EPA questionnaire allows us to identify permanent from temporary 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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Temporary Help Employment in Recession and Recovery [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 The temporary help industry, although small, plays a significant role in the macro economy, reflecting employers’ growing reliance on temporary help agencies to provide flexibility in meeting staffing needs. Drawing on detailed temporary-help order data between 2007 and 2011 from a large, nationally representative staffing company, we provide insights ...
Susan N. Houseman, Carolyn J. Heinrich
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Vulnerable temporary migrant workers: Canterbury construction industry [PDF]
, 2015 Based on semi-structured interviews with key informants from government agencies, businesses, and other organisations including non-government organisations and community advocates. It brings these interviews together with analysis of administrative data
Innovation and Employment (New Zealand) +1 more
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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type.
Wadensjö, Eskil, Andersson, Pernilla
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Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes [PDF]
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment but also ...
Jahn, Elke J., Rosholm, Michael
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