Arbeitspapier
Temporary agency work and the user firm's productivity: First evidence from German Panel Data
This paper investigates the relationship between the use of temporary agency work and the user firm's productivity. We hypothesise that modest use enhances numerical flexibility and thus productivity, while excessive use mirrors lowproductivity strategies utilising less social and human capital and primarily aims at circumventing labour market regulations. In contrast to the sparse existing literature on this issue, we apply a large panel data set and fixed effects techniques. We find a robust hump-shaped relationship between the extent of temporary agency work use and the user firm's productivity, which corroborates our hypotheses.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Diskussionspapiere ; No. 68
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Organization of Production
- Subject
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temporary agency work
firm productivity
flexible labour
Leiharbeit
Unternehmen
Produktivität
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hirsch, Boris
Mueller, Steffen
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
- (where)
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Nürnberg
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hirsch, Boris
- Mueller, Steffen
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Arbeitsmarkt- und Regionalpolitik
Time of origin
- 2010
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