Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?

Henna Busk (), Elke Jahn and Christine Dauth ()
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Henna Busk: University of Jyväskylä
Christine Dauth: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

No 8803, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably changed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and using rich survey data. We find that the change of the law substantially decreased agency workers’ job satisfaction while regular workers’ job satisfaction remained unchanged. Further analysis reveals that the negative effect on agency workers’ job satisfaction can be attributed to a decrease in wages and an increase in perceived job insecurity. These results are also robust to the use of different specifications and placebo tests.

Keywords: deregulation; temporary agency employment; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 J41 J88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2015-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hap, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Forthcoming - published in: Industrial Relations, 2017, 56 (3), 514-544

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Journal Article: Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers’ Job Satisfaction? (2017)
Working Paper: Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction? (2015)
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