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Foreign workers in Canada: Changing composition and employment incidences of work permit holders

Economic and Social Reports, 2023
Canada has a long history of recruiting foreign nationals to address temporary labour shortages through a diverse range of work permit programs. Along with a significant increase in the number of work permit holders, there have been large changes in the ...
Yuqian Lu, Feng Hou
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Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First' [PDF]

Temporary-help jobs offer rapid entry into paid employment, but they are typically brief and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment.
Susan Houseman, David Autor
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Temporary Work in Poland: Who Gets the Jobs? [PDF]

, 2010
In recent years, Poland witnessed a dramatic decline in its unemployment rate and, from having had one of the worst jobless records in the EU-27, the country now posts a figure below the Union average.
Ingham, M, Ingham, H
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The ‘temporariness’ of temporary agency work assignments

European Labour Law Journal
To prevent the misuse of the equal treatment principle and successive assignments designed to circumvent the TAW Directive's provisions, Member States have to take appropriate measures in accordance with national law and/or practice (Art. 5(5)). One such measure, as mentioned but not further defined by the TAW Directive itself (Art.
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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, Tommy Isidorsson, Hannes Kantelius   +2 more
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New Legislative Rules of Agency Work in the Slovak Republic [PDF]

Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2015
The presented study focuses on the current issues of temporary agency work in relation to the new Slovak legislation in force. Its author specifically concentrates on the following key areas: the current situation on temporary agency work in the Slovak ...
Helena Barancová
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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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The Liminality of Temporary Agency Work: Exploring the Dimensions of Danish Temporary Agency Workers’ Liminal Experience

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015
The concept of liminality refers to the experience to be betwixt-and-between social structures and the associated positions, statuses, and roles. We advance the original use of the concept by introducing the various meanings that the experience of being ...
Ingo Winkler, Mustafa Khalil Mahmood
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Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment [PDF]

During the 1990s, temporary agency work has increased rapidly in most OECD countries. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work agencies.
Neugart, Michael, Storrie, Donald
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Wage differentials for temporary services work: evidence from administrative data [PDF]

We use administrative data from the unemployment insurance system State of Washington to study the magnitude of the wage differential associated with work in the temporary services industry.
Lewis M. Segal, Daniel G. Sullivan
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