Temporary help agencies and workers' occupational mobility

J. Ignacio García Pérez () and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón ()

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Temporary help agencies; screening; self-selection; switching models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C34 J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-05
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