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.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Labour - Review of labour economics and industrial relations |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 308-329 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| ISSN | 1121-7081 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 09.2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
- Economics
Research areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Demography
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth