Employment protection and temporary work agencies
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in: Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations, Jahrgang 25, Nr. 3, 09.2011, S. 308-329.
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T1 - Employment protection and temporary work agencies
AU - Baumann, Florian
AU - Mechtel, Mario
AU - Stähler, Nikolai
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051580207&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00493.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00493.x
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:80051580207
VL - 25
SP - 308
EP - 329
JO - Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations
JF - Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations
SN - 1121-7081
IS - 3
ER -