Employment protection and temporary work agencies

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Employment protection and temporary work agencies. / Baumann, Florian; Mechtel, Mario; Stähler, Nikolai.

in: Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, Jahrgang 25, Nr. 3, 09.2011, S. 308-329.

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Baumann F, Mechtel M, Stähler N. Employment protection and temporary work agencies. Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations. 2011 Sep;25(3):308-329. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00493.x

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title = "Employment protection and temporary work agencies",
abstract = "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.",
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