Does solo self-employment serve as a ‘stepping stone’ to employership?

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...

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

Imitation as a Stepping Stone to Innovation

By creating a knowledge base that reduces innovation costs, imitation can serve as a stepping stone enabling …rms from lagging countries to undertake innovation. This paper constructs a product cycle model with this feature to determine what forces could cause a lagging country to shift R&D from imitation toward innovation. Increasing resources or subsidizing R&D in the lagging South increases ...

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...

Information Systems And Employment: From Idealization To Understanding As Stepping Stone To Action

Digitization and its effect on employment has been discussed within the discipline of Information Systems (IS) for a long time. The net effect of digitization on job creation and job loss has never been clear. However, it seems obvious that today's IS and the accompanying digitization of data and processes may destroy jobs among knowledge workers just as automation replaced the need for manufac...