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Examining the determinants of agency work: do family friendly practices play a role?

This paper uses establishment data to estimate the determinants of using agency workers. It contends that those employers with less ability to direct effort of core workers are more likely to use agency workers to meet uncertain labor demand. Family friendly practices are viewed as either increasing or decreasing such ability, depending upon their influence upon absence rates. The empirical results imply that special leave practices reduce firms' ability to direct worker effort, thereby increasing the likelihood of using agency workers. On the other hand, practices linked with flexible working conditions (workplace nurseries, flexitime and job sharing) have the opposite effect. The findings thus distinguish between family friendly practices that make core workers better off without expanding contingent agency jobs, and those that do not.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2413

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Heywood, John S.
Siebert, William Stanley
Wei, Xiangdong
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2006

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090309158
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Heywood, John S.
  • Siebert, William Stanley
  • Wei, Xiangdong
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2006

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