Employment protection and temporary work agencies
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Employers 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. In this paper, we analyse the effects of employment protection on the size of the temporary work agency sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency employment if agencies themselves are subject to employment protection, a consideration that distinguishes our results from those for fixed-term employment arrangements.
| Originalsprache | Englisch |
|---|---|
| Zeitschrift | Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations |
| Jahrgang | 25 |
| Ausgabenummer | 3 |
| Seiten (von - bis) | 308-329 |
| Anzahl der Seiten | 22 |
| ISSN | 1121-7081 |
| DOIs | |
| Publikationsstatus | Erschienen - 09.2011 |
| Extern publiziert | Ja |
- Volkswirtschaftslehre
Fachgebiete
- Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung
- Demographie
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- SDG 8 – Anständige Arbeitsbedingungen und wirtschaftliches Wachstum