Work Commitment Modes of Temporary Agency Workers in Restaurants

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...

"How Precarious Employment Affects Health and Safety at Work: The Case of Temporary Agency Workers"

international studies indicate temporary agency workers are more likely to be injured at work than other types of employees. However explanations for this have been less forthcoming. this paper seeks to begin filling this gap. a study was undertaken in Victoria, australia, of occupational health and safety (oHs) amongst temporary agency workers drawing upon workers' compensation claim files for...

Temporary Agency Workers in Italy: Alternative Techniques of Classification

The cluster analysis and the classification trees technique are applied to investigate the relationship between the individual characteristics of the Italian THA (temporary help agency) workers and their probability to achieve a temporary job. The application aims to show some advantages of these techniques with respect to the traditional econometric tools. The sketches of the most common profi...

Acquisition IT Integration: The Roles of Temporary Agency Workers

The IT integration of acquisitions consists an important challenge for the many acquiring organizations. Complementing existing research, this paper searches for explanation to differences in acquirers’ abilities for acquisition IT integration in the external of the acquirer, by a study of the use of temporary agency workers. Following an analytic induction approach, theoretically grounded in t...

Contracting - out employment services : temporary agency work in Germany