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Temporary employment

Career Development International, 2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to answer two questions: How do temporary workers achieve well‐being and optimal functioning? and how is it possible to promote commitment and productive behaviours among temporary workers?Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of a literature review and synthesis.FindingsTemporary employment can no ...
de Cuyper, N., de Witte, H., van Emmerik, H.   +2 more
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TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS

Roczniki Administracji i Prawa, 2021
The employment of teachers is stable. The preferred legal form of performing work is an employment relationship for an indefinite period. Employment under a fixed-term employment contract is exceptionally permissible. The Teacher’s Charter identifies four such situations. This does not mean that temporary employment may last for many years.
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Temporary Employment and the Employment Relationship

2020
Temporary work should be performed on the basis of employment relationship or a civil law contract. Neither ILO or EU documents do not provide a specific decision concerning this issue. In the Union there are significant differences in the use of temporary work and the status and working conditions of temporary workers.
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Temporary Employment and Employability: Training Opportunities and Efforts of Temporary and Permanent Employees in Belgium

Work, Employment and Society, 2003
‘Lifetime employability’ is often put forward as an alternative to lifetime employment with the same employer. At first sight, temporary employment relations and employability go hand in hand. Temporary employment is less dramatic when it is linked to a higher employability.
Anneleen Forrier, Luc Sels
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Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions

Journal of Economic Literature
Temporary employment has spiked in OECD countries over the last 40 years and is now a common feature of their labor market landscape. A large body of empirical literature examines the spread of temporary employment, but no systematic review and interpretation of its findings in light of economic theory exists.
Boeri, T, Garibaldi, P
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Psychophysiological effects of temporary alternative employment

Social Science & Medicine, 2001
Twenty-one participants in a mobilising labour market project offering temporary, alternative employment in Sweden were followed longitudinally for one year, including a six month post-participation follow-up period. Earlier analyses of self-rated psychosocial data have indicated consistent improvements in mental health and quality of life.
H, Westerlund, T, Theorell, A, Bergström   +2 more
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Flexible Employment and Temporary Contracts: The Employer's Perspective

2010
Temporary employment has become a focus of policy debate, theory, and research. This book addresses as its core concern the relationship between temporary employment contracts and employee well-being. Covering seven countries, it sheds new light on the nature and role of the psychological contract.
Kerstin Isaksson, José Maria Peiró, Claudia Bernhard‐Oettel, Amparo Caballer, Francisco J. Gracia, José Ramos   +5 more
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Part-Time and Temporary Employment: A Gender Perspective

2011
The focus in this chapter is on part-time and temporary work; we analyse these two different types of ‘non-standard’ work from a gender perspective.
ADDABBO, Tindara, FAVARO D.
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Bargaining and Temporary Employment [PDF]

, 2001
This article studies the behavior of the …rm when it is searching to …ll a vacancy. The principal hypothesis is that the …rm can o¤er two kinds of contracts to the workers, short-term or long-term contracts. The short-term contract is like a probationary stage in which the …rm can learn the worker’s type.
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Spotlight: temporary employment [PDF]

, 2007
As the Texas economy expanded over the past two decades, firms increasingly relied on temporary workers to fill shortterm and seasonal staffing needs. In 1990, these employees accounted for less than 1.5 percent of Texas jobs. After peaking in 1999 and taking a recessionary dip, the number rebounded to 2.7 percent this year.
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