Does casual employment provide a “ stepping stone ” to better work prospects ?

Does Temporary Agency Work provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Based on administrative data from the federal employment o¢ce in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run e¤ects on their future employment prospects.Our results show that unemployed workers who take up a job in the temporary work agency (TWA) industry are on average more likely tha...

Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants?

Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants? We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants arriving during childhood. Post-treatment effects are fairly high for male non...

Stepping Stones to Permanent Employment with Particular Reference to the Queensland Public Service

It is widely believed that initial experience in temporary and/or casual employment may act as an important steeping-stone to permanent or more desired employment. This is because, on the demand side, employers are increasingly using non-standard employment as a means of labour force screening, and, on the supply side, such jobs offer workers a chance to broaden workforce skills and improve emp...

Women, work, and employment outcomes in rural India

This paper analyses the trends and pattern of women’s employment in rural India using unit data from two types of large scale surveys. It shows that while rural women’s employment has grown over the decades, there has not been much improvement in outcomes. Women are still largely concentrated in agriculture as self-employed or casual labour. Women workers face various forms of discrimination, i...

Prospects & Overviews Non-random autosome segregation: A stepping stone for the evolution of sex chromosome complexes?