Paper #554
- Títol:
- Temporary help agencies and workers' occupational mobility
- Autors:
- J. Ignacio GarcÃa 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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