Explaining the Relationship between Flexible Employment and Labour Market Regulation

Robinson, Peter

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“…In more "flexible" urban labor markets, though, the incentive of employers to use temps may be somewhat attenuated by the relatively deregulated nature of mainstream employment relations, a relationship that seems to hold at the international level (see Robinson 1999;Peck and Theodore 2002). In more "flexible" urban labor markets, though, the incentive of employers to use temps may be somewhat attenuated by the relatively deregulated nature of mainstream employment relations, a relationship that seems to hold at the international level (see Robinson 1999;Peck and Theodore 2002).…”

Section: The Spatial Division Of Tempingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The implication is that, at this urban scale of analysis, the TSI seems able to penetrate much deeper into faster-growing and less-unionized "new economy" markets, suggesting that the envelope of labor contingency is being stretched somewhat further in less-regulated labor markets, relative to areas in which degrees of organized and institutionalized resistance are higher. In more "flexible" urban labor markets, though, the incentive of employers to use temps may be somewhat attenuated by the relatively deregulated nature of mainstream employment relations, a relationship that seems to hold at the international level (see Robinson 1999;Peck and Theodore 2002). The answer to this apparent conundrum-that temping tends to be associated with more-regulated labor markets at the national level, but less-regulated labor markets at the urban scale-seems to lie with the distinctive dynamics of competition in Sunbelt markets.…”

Section: The Spatial Division Of Tempingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency*

Theodore¹,

Peck²

2002

Economic Geography

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The temporary staffing industry (TSI) in the United States has enjoyed explosive growth since the 1970s, during which time the market for temporary labor has become increasingly complex and diverse. Rather than focus, as has typically been done, on the wider labor market effects of this sustained expansion in temporary employment, this article explores patterns and processes of industrial restructuring in the TSI itself. The analysis reveals a powerfully recursive relationship among evolving TSI business practices, the industry's strategies for building and extending the market, and urban labor market outcomes as the sector has grown through a series of qualitatively differentiated phases of development or "modes of growth." Moreover, the distinctive character of the TSI's geographic rollout raises a new set of questions concerning, inter alia, the links between temping and labor market deregulation, the nature of local competition, the scope for and limits of value-adding strategies, and the emerging global structure of the temp market. This idiosyncratic industry-which has been a conspicuous beneficiary of growing economic instability-has, throughout the past three decades, restructured continuously through a period of sustained but highly uneven growth. In so doing, it has proved to be remarkably inventive in extending the market for contingent labor, but has encountered a series of (possibly structural) obstacles to further expansion in its domestic market. These obstacles, in turn, have triggered an unprecedented phase of international integration in the TSI, along with a new mode of developmentglobal growth.

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Section: The Spatial Division Of Tempingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Spatial Division Of Tempingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency*

Theodore¹,

Peck²

2002

Economic Geography

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“…Evidence for the UK contradicts this picture. Between the mid 1980s and the early 1990s, the overall proportion of temporary and part-time employment remained stable (Robinson 1999). Furthermore, temporary workers tend to be relatively young, suggesting that temporary employment represents a specific early career phase.…”

Section: Lifelong Learning and The Flexible Labour Marketmentioning

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'Front-loaded' Vocational Education versus Lifelong Learning. A Critique of Current UK Government Policy

Winch

Clarke

2003

Oxford Review of Education

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“…In societies that traditionally offer high employment protection, such as the Netherlands and other continental European countries, other solutions are applied to flexibilise labour (Dunnewijk 2001;OECD 2004). Here, employers are inclined to hire more workers on a fixed-term contract if they somehow perceive employment protection for permanent workers as burdensome (Robinson 1999). Hiring employees on a temporary basis generally allows employers to avoid the legal complications of dismissing permanent workers.…”

Section: Numerical Flexibility and The Regulatory Context Of Temporarmentioning

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International Employment Agencies and Migrant Flexiwork in an Enlarged European Union

Pijpers

2010

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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In the literature on migrant networks, the constitutive role of employers and recruiting actors remains underexposed, despite a persistent economic demand for migrant labour which is cheap, readily available and easily dismissed. Aiming to further understand how the recruitment of migrant labour by employers is organised, this paper focuses on the example of international employment agencies (IEAs). It is argued that these agencies are currently the anchors of the circular labour migration between Poland and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, temporary staffing is a fully legal and common phenomenon, allowing agencies to transfer part of the Polish employment from the underground to a more visible presence. When viewed through the lens of geographical and work-organisation literature on the issue of labour flexibility, these migrant workers could be named migrant flexiworkers. Apart from analysing the origins and current functioning of the IEAs, the paper discusses their development prospects and other more normative aspects of migrant flexiwork.

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Explaining the Relationship between Flexible Employment and Labour Market Regulation

Cited by 15 publications

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The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency*

The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency*

'Front-loaded' Vocational Education versus Lifelong Learning. A Critique of Current UK Government Policy

International Employment Agencies and Migrant Flexiwork in an Enlarged European Union

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