Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance: A Replication Study with Extensions
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In: Jahrbucher für Nationalokonomie und Statistik, Vol. 240, No. 4, 01.08.2020, p. 455-465.
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T1 - Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance
T2 - A Replication Study with Extensions
AU - Pfeifer, Christian
AU - Weche, John P.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - The authors analyze the nexus between temporary agency work (TAW) and firm performance. Compared to Hirsch and Mueller (2012, The Productivity Effect of Temporary Agency Work: Evidence from German Panel Data. Economic Journal 122 (562): F216-F235) and Nielen and Schiersch (2014, Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms. Industrial Relations 53: 365-393), the authors support a concave relationship between the TAW share and productivity, but find a convex relationship between the TAW share and unit labor costs, instead of a u-shape. Moreover, a new finding is that the correlation between the TAW share and profitability is only moderate.
AB - The authors analyze the nexus between temporary agency work (TAW) and firm performance. Compared to Hirsch and Mueller (2012, The Productivity Effect of Temporary Agency Work: Evidence from German Panel Data. Economic Journal 122 (562): F216-F235) and Nielen and Schiersch (2014, Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms. Industrial Relations 53: 365-393), the authors support a concave relationship between the TAW share and productivity, but find a convex relationship between the TAW share and unit labor costs, instead of a u-shape. Moreover, a new finding is that the correlation between the TAW share and profitability is only moderate.
KW - firm competitiveness
KW - productivity
KW - profitability
KW - temporary agency work
KW - unit labor costs
KW - Economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067983028&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/jbnst-2018-0038
DO - 10.1515/jbnst-2018-0038
M3 - Scientific review articles
AN - SCOPUS:85067983028
VL - 240
SP - 455
EP - 465
JO - Jahrbucher für Nationalokonomie und Statistik
JF - Jahrbucher für Nationalokonomie und Statistik
SN - 0021-4027
IS - 4
ER -