Workplace flexibility and control in temporary agency work

Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession

We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of temporary agency work prior to the crisis. Overall, our results suggest that establishments with a gr...

Trade unions ’ opposition to temporary agency work : Evidence from UK workplace data ∗

Trade unions have an ambiguous relationship with the use of temporary agency work. A firm’s employment of agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain higher wages for their me...

Contracting - out employment services : temporary agency work in Germany

Temporary Agency Work in Australia: Towards a Basic Description

Temporary agency work is a familiar phenomenon in Australia, as in most other advanced capitalist societies. This paper describes the basic features of temporary agency work and its lack of regulation in Australia. It then seeks to pave the way for an analysis that can adequately grasp both the common features and the peculiarities of the Australian case. It focuses on two main themes the disti...

Temporary Agency Workers and Workplace Performance in the Private Sector Alex

Using nationally representative workplace data we identify the correlates of temporary agency working (TAW) in the private sector in Britain and its association with workplace labour productivity and financial performance. TAW per se is not associated with workplace financial performance. It is also not associated with two of the three measures of labour productivity analysed. However, it does ...