Temporary agency work and the Great Recession

Daniel Baumgarten and Michael Kvasnicka

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of temporary agency work prior to the crisis. Overall, our results suggest that establishments with a greater use of temporary agency work coped better with the sharp decline in demand and made less frequent use of government-sponsored short-time work schemes.

Keywords: Labour demand; Employment adjustment; Economic crisis; Temporary agency work; Short-time work; Establishment data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J23 J68 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 136(2017-04): pp. 29-44

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Journal Article: Temporary agency work and the Great Recession (2017)
Working Paper: Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession (2016)
Working Paper: Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession (2016)
Working Paper: Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession (2016)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lmu:muenar:49930

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics Ludwigstr. 28, 80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tamilla Benkelberg ().