Employment Protection and Temporary Work Agencies

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Florian Baumann

University of Tuebingen - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Mario Mechtel

Leuphana University of Lueneburg

Nikolai Stahler

Deutsche Bundesbank - Economics Department

Date Written: 2008

Abstract

Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services provided by temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment. In this paper, we analyze the effects of employment protection on the size of the temporary work agency sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency employment if agencies themselves are subject to employment protection, a consideration which distinguishes our results from those for fixed-term employment arrangements.

Keywords: employment protection, temporary work agencies, search and matching models, unemployment

JEL Classification: J68, J65, J64, J30

Suggested Citation

Baumann, Florian and Mechtel, Mario and Stahler, Nikolai, Employment Protection and Temporary Work Agencies (2008). Bundesbank Series 1 Discussion Paper No. 2008,26, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2785325 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2785325

Florian Baumann (Contact Author)

University of Tuebingen - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration ( email )

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Mario Mechtel

Leuphana University of Lueneburg ( email )

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Nikolai Stahler

Deutsche Bundesbank - Economics Department ( email )

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60431 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

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