The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A.

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“…to increase or decrease the size of their workforce. Employers have been found to use temporary workers to fill shortterm vacancy gaps and staff absences and to adjust to workload fluctuations, be they seasonal or due to fluctuations in product markets (Houseman 2001;Houseman Kalleberg and Erickcek 2003;Olsen and Kalleberg 2004). These are all situations where the nature of the job is short-term and where we have less reason to expect temporary jobs to lead to permanent employment.…”

Section: Theories Predicting a Trapmentioning

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Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Gash¹

2008

European Sociological Review

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Citation: Gash, V. (2008). Bridge or trap? To what extent do temporary workers make more transitions to unemployment than to the standard employment contract. European Sociological Review, 24(5), pp. 651-668. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcn027 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. 1984;Blossfeld and Rohwer 1995). This paper establishes higher rates of transition to permanent employment than to unemployment for most temporary workers, though strong between-country differences are found. Permanent

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Section: Theories Predicting a Trapmentioning

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Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Gash¹

2008

European Sociological Review

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“…The threat of discrimination may represent a significant problem faced by immigrants searching for jobs through recruiting agencies because these agencies often block immigrants' access to jobs with more equitable wages (Fang & MacPhail, 2008;Houseman et al, 2003). Managing this threat of discrimination is a constant challenge as immigrants, compelled to use their second language during the job-search process, often lack the linguistic competence that is necessary to ensure an equitable pay relative to natives (González-Castro et al, 2009).…”

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“…Since the recruitment agency simply works as a contractor for the employer, this practice would not absolve the employer of liability. Nevertheless, a typical outcome of such practices is that immigrants are often discriminated against because they are offered 15 lower pay than natives for the same type of job (Houseman, Kalleberg, & Erickcek, 2003;Fang & MacPhail, 2008).…”

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“…This practice allows for another way of discriminating against immigrants whose qualifications are not as well-known as those of natives. For example, Houseman et al (2003) found that employment agencies preferred to give immigrants temporary assignments because employers considered them "risky." As a result, a recruiter may consciously or unconsciously assess and consider a native applicant, rather than an immigrant applicant, to be more appropriate for stable employment.…”

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Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

Fang

Samnani

Novičević

et al. 2013

Journal of World Business

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job outcomes in the Canadian labor market. To our knowledge this is the first empirical test of LOF at the individual-level while controlling for variables at multiple levels. We found support for LOF when job applicants used the rich media job-search methods of social networks and recruitment agencies, but not when they used the lean media of newspaper ads and the internet. Study limitations, implications, and future research are discussed.JEL Classification: J15, J71, J78

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“…Similar trends have been found in studies on subcontracting in call centers (Batt, Colvin, and Keefe 2002), hotels (Hertz 2010), and school cafeterias (McCain 2009). Meanwhile, many high-skilled contract workers benefit from outsourcing as they frequently earn higher wages than their in-house counterparts (Houseman, Kalleberg, and Erickcek 2003;Kunda, Barley, and Evans 2002).…”

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Growing Apart: The Changing Firm-Size Wage Premium and Its Inequality Consequences

Cobb

Lin

2017

Organization Science

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Wage inequality in the United States has risen dramatically over the past few decades, prompting scholars to develop a number of theoretical accounts for the upward trend. This study argues that large firms have been a prominent labor-market institution that mitigates inequality. By compensating their low-and middle-wage employees with a greater premium than their higher-wage counterparts, large U.S. firms reduced overall wage dispersion. Yet, broader changes to employment relations associated with the demise of internal labor markets and the emergence of alternative employment arrangements have undermined large firms' role as an equalizing institution. Using data from the Current Population Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we find that in 1989, although all private-sector workers benefited from a firm-size wage premium, the premium was significantly higher for individuals at the lower end and middle of the wage distribution compared to those at the higher end. Between 1989 and 2014, the average firm-size wage premium declined markedly. The decline, however, was exclusive to those at the lower end and middle of the wage distribution, while there was no change for those at the higher end. As such, the uneven declines in the premium across the wage spectrum could account for about 20% of rising wage inequality during this period, suggesting that firms are of great importance to the study of rising inequality.Keywords firm-size wage premium, inequality, internal labor market, employment relationship Disciplines Management Sciences and Quantitative MethodsThis journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons:

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The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Cited by 109 publications

References 9 publications

Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Liability-of-foreignness effects on job success of immigrant job seekers

Growing Apart: The Changing Firm-Size Wage Premium and Its Inequality Consequences

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