Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Help Agencies?

The employment duration of workers in temporary help agencies is seen as an important indicator of their job quality. Most of the countries that regulate temporary agency employment do so to ensure at least a minimal level of employment stability. Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly l...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Industrial & labor relations review 2009-01, Vol.62 (2), p.226-251
Main Authors: Antoni, Manfred, Jahn, Elke J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrative agencies
Agency law
Bonuses
Contracts
Employment
Employment contracts
Employment duration
Employment policies
Employment termination
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
Industrial regulation
Labor force participation
Labor markets
Labor relations
Labour economics
Labour relations
Labour turnover
Law
Legislation
Quality of work
Reforms
Regulation
State court decisions
Temporary agencies
Temporary Employment
Unemployment
Wages
Workers
Workforce
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The employment duration of workers in temporary help agencies is seen as an important indicator of their job quality. Most of the countries that regulate temporary agency employment do so to ensure at least a minimal level of employment stability. Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly liberalized the law on temporary agency employment. These successive reforms should have affected the employment duration in the temporary employment sector. Applying a mixed proportional hazard rate model to administrative data, the authors examine whether employment duration changed in response to these reforms. They find that successive extensions of the maximum assignment period significantly increased average employment duration, while "liberalizing" legislation, such as that allowing fixed-term contracts, tended to reduce it.
ISSN:0019-7939
2162-271X
DOI:10.1177/001979390906200205