... work on individual labour market performance have not considered the specific situation of young workers after graduation. The rapidly increasing percentage of TWA jobs and the above average share of young workers among temporary workers call for corresponding evidence. The theoretical expectations...

...-longitudinal nature of the data set. Practical implications The effect of participation in decision making in job satisfaction is greater for temporary workers than for permanents. Participation in decision making should not be restricted to permanent workers. Originality/value Participation...

... heterogeneous effects experienced by different native groups. This paper informs the policy discussion about immigration and its effects on native workers. Employment Immigrants Compensation Labour market Temporary workers The effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives have...

... may experience differing degrees of job quality and vulnerability. Gender Contingent workers Labour market Flexible labour Disadvantaged groups Temporary workers The use of temporary staffing agencies and contracted work arrangements allows organisations to adapt...

... to temporary workers even for equal work and equal productivity. Social implications – Results indicate the importance of job stability for the integration and assimilation of immigrants in Spain, and offer an economic argument to support labour policies that encourage stable employment relationships...

... category, thereby ignoring a relevant source of heterogeneity. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Temporary workers Port of entry Matched employer‐employee data Dynamic multinomial logit models State dependence Fixed effects Italy Employment The liberalisation of temporary...

...Jeroen de Jong; Nele De Cuyper; Hans De Witte; Inmaculada Silla; Claudia Bernhard‐Oettel Purpose This paper aims to offer a typology of temporary workers, based on their motives for accepting their work arrangement, which includes voluntary, involuntary and stepping‐stone motives, and relate...

... temporary workers are well embedded in regular labour law. Since the introduction of the Flexibility and Security Act in 1999, The Netherlands has had a rather innovative system of regulating agency work that differs substantially from the traditional prohibitions that are still in place in many other...

...César Rodríguez‐Gutiérrez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of the proportion of temporary workers on the profit‐to‐sales ratio (or price‐cost margin) of Spanish manufacturing firms in the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach The relation between the proportion...

... training content and who is selected to take part entails a certain amount of monitoring, which is cumbersome to the extent that the State has no real control over such issues. Training Temporary workers Temporary Help Agencies (THAs) or Empresas de Trabajo Temporal...

... between technical efficiency and the proportion of temporary jobs has been obtained. Also, shows that permanent employment makes an important contribution to output while temporary does not. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Temporary workers Spain Labour efficiency Resource efficiency...

... and dismissal cost reductions have had a small impact. This paper examines the determinants of Spanish employers’ reliance on temporary workers and their “temp‐to‐perm” conversions. Approved wage and dismissal cost reductions for permanent workers promote the hiring of permanent workers but have virtually...

... less than six months, 30 per cent worked six to 12 months, 10 per cent worked one to two years, and close to 10 per cent were affiliated more than two years. The agency’s records indicate an average of ten months of affiliation. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Temporary workers Flexible working...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1994 Employment agencies Employment Grants Labour market Policy Sweden Temporary workers Training Unemployment Explicit self‐selection models are not the only ones compatible with rational behaviour. Many regression models (with or without panel data)can...