The Implications of Flexible Staffing Arrangements for Job Stability

Abstract

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Producing Precarity: The Temporary Staffing Agency in the Labor Market

“…TSAs reduce the costs of recruitment, screening, and firing workers; they enable firms to reserve higher wages and benefits for permanent workers, while providing a worse compensation scheme for less legally protected temporary workers. They also help adjust firms' workforce sizes to accommodate fluctuating workloads (Segal and Sullivan 1997;Smith 1998;Houseman and Polivka 1998;Kalleberg 2000).…”

Why Do Recent Graduates Enter into Flexible Jobs?

“…Individuals within these groups may move from one flexible job to another, interrupted by periods of unemployment or inactivity. For the medium and long term, the unemployed might even be better off investing in a lengthier job search to find a permanent job, as opposed to accepting a temporary job Houseman 2005, 2010;Houseman and Polivka 2000). A high incidence of flexible jobs among recent graduates may be explained by the insider-outsider model (Bentolila and Dolado 1994;Lindbeck and Snower 2002).…”

The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staff Arrangements

“…the jobs of agency temporaries, on-call and day laborers, and other direct-hire temporaries are less stable than those of regular workers in the sense that they are more likely to lead to a job switch or unemployment, whereas the jobs of contract company workers and independent contractors have similar or even more stability compared to those of regular workers (Houseman and Polivka 2000).…”