The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success

Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Spengler, Hannes; Almus, Matthias

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-57615-7_9

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“…For Italy Ichino et al . (2004) find positive effects of having been a temporary work agency's worker and positive results have been also claimed by Andersson and Wadensjö (2004) and Lechner et al . (2001).…”

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Temporary Workers in Italy: Who Are They and Where They End Up

Barbieri¹,

Sestito²

2008

Labour

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Temporary work has been an important component of employment growth in Italy since the early 1990s. This paper focus upon labour market transitions of temporary workers in order to test whether temporary work enhances the subsequent labour market chances. We use propensity score matching to compare subsequent employment outcomes of people who have recently acquired a temporary job with those of people who remained unemployed. Individuals' hetero geneity explains a good amount of the raw differences in the subsequent labour market status of temporary workers and the comparison group. Yet there appears to be a sizable net gain from experiencing a temporary work. Our benchmark average estimate is a 30 percentage points rise in the 'satisfactory employment' chances 1 year after the start of the temporary work experience. The net gains are the largest for females and adult people and the areas with low unemployment; moreover, gains are the largest for the most recent years in our sample and for those people who were (according to the propensity score estimates) either least or most likely to exit from unemployment. Copyright 2008 The Authors.

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Temporary Workers in Italy: Who Are They and Where They End Up

Barbieri¹,

Sestito²

2008

Labour

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“…SeeKvasnicka (2005), andLechner et al (2000) for Germany;Amuedo-Dorantes et al (2006), andMalo and Munoz- Bullon (2002) for Spain;Anderson and Wadensjö (2004) for Sweden;Lane et al (2003) for the USA;Gerfin et al (2002) for Switzerland; andBooth et al (2002) for the UK. 3 More precisely, they exploit the fact that individuals applying for welfare are randomly assigned to different Work First contractors, which in turn display different policies in terms of referring their randomly assigned participants to TWAs.…”

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From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?

Ichino

Mealli

Nannicini

2008

J of Applied Econometrics

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From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What CanWe Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?*The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the Conditional Independence Assumption (CIA), typically reach opposite conclusions. Using data for two Italian regions, we use a matching estimator to show that TWA assignments can be an effective springboard to permanent employment. We also propose a simulation-based sensitivity analysis, which highlights that only for one of these two regions our results are robust to specific failures of the CIA. We conclude that European studies based on the CIA should not be automatically discarded, but should be put under the scrutiny of a sensitivity analysis like the one we propose.JEL Classification: C2, C8 and J6

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“… Among other European countries, evidence in this direction is available for Italy (Adam and Canziani, ; Ichino et al ., ), for the UK (Booth et al ., ), for Germany and the Netherlands (Lechner et al ., ; Dekker, ; Zijl et al ., ) and for Sweden (Holmund and Storrie, ). Analysis based on the US data instead (Autor and Houseman, ) does not find evidence in favour of a screening motive. …”

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Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device

Faccini¹

2013

The Economic Journal

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The literature has warned against the risk that expanding temporary contracts might lead to segmented labour markets while failing to reduce unemployment. This article reports stylised facts suggesting that in most European countries temporary workers enjoy high rates of transition into permanent employment and presents empirical evidence showing that temporary contracts significantly decrease the unemployment rate. A matching model in which firms use temporary contracts to screen workers for permanent positions can successfully account for these facts. If separations are driven by learning about match quality, temporary contracts can revert part of the negative welfare effects generated by employment protection.

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The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Temporary Workers in Italy: Who Are They and Where They End Up

Temporary Workers in Italy: Who Are They and Where They End Up

From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?

Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device

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