Paper #554

Títol:

Temporary help agencies and workers' occupational mobility

Autors:

J. Ignacio García Pérez i Fernando Muñoz Bullón

Data:

Maig 2001

Resum:

This paper focuses on the occupational mobility of temporary help agency workers by studying their job-to-job upgrading chances as opposed to those who have not been hired through these intermediaries. A screening approach to the role of those labor �brokers� suggests that agency workers may expect greater chances of upgrading from one occupation to another. Results obtained with a sample of Spanish workers show that working through those intermediaries comparatively offers stronger prospects of occupational upgrading for workers of a medium qualification level. This basic result is reinforced when the existence of self-selection into this type of intermediated work is appropriately taken into account.

Paraules clau:

Temporary help agencies, screening, self-selection, switching models

Codis JEL:

J24, J62, C34

Àrea de Recerca:

Economia Laboral, Pública, de Desenvolupament i de la Salut

Publicat a:

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol 65(2), pp. 163-180, 2005

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