Improving Job-matching through Placement Services

Walwei, Ulrich

doi:10.4337/9781781954256.00020

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“…The Liberal Coalition Government, which was elected to office in 1996, embarked on a radical program (even by OECD standards, Walwei, 1996) to move the unemployed and those with disabilities into employment. These changes were made based on claims that the 21% of the population currently receiving income support on the DSP was likely to rise to three-quarters of a million by 2006 (Newman, Minister for Family and Community Services, 1999).…”

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Welfare Reform and Its Impact on the Employment Prospects of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities

Shankar

Collyer

2004

Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation

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Welfare Reform and Its Impact on the Employment Prospects of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities

Shankar

Collyer

2004

Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation

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“…In fact, Internet-based recruitment (Kinder 2000) is gaining ground in India, and firms with brand presence often recruit through the Internet. Placement intermediaries (Walwei 1996) thus have little role to play in market coordination and also in reduction of fixed costs. Small firms and the start-ups depend, as per the result of a small survey done by largely on social network.…”

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Resource Strategy and Signals to Resources Market in Indian Software

Banerjee

2003

Global Business Review

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Resource dependence of strategies of firms in software have mostly been studied from an internal perspective. However, because large manpower turnover takes place across most firms and because quality of resources is uncertain, firms value the functioning of the market of software personnel. Signals based on which transactions in such a market take place appear through advertisements for jobs. This paper has studied 1,615 advertisements for software jobs in India and abroad. It is observed that signals that appear in advertisements are vague. It appears that firms benefit by concealing from competitors information about its resources, although vagueness of information raises fixed cost.

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“…This research seeks to both make space for the active role of agencies described above and to move beyond previous work which has classified staffing markets purely in terms of modes of regulation of the industry (e.g. Walvei 1996). Comparisons of contexts where the industry is lightly or tightly regulated are a useful starting point, but they underestimate the complexity of the wider institutional context in which temporary staffing agencies operate.…”

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Contested growth: the development of norway's temporary staffing industry

Jordhus‐Lier

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Bråten

2015

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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In this article we mobilize a variegated capitalism approach to understand the development of the Norwegian temporary staffing industry. From this perspective, national temporary staffing industries are understood as contested multi-actor and multiscalar institutional fields. The analysis explores the key actors and regulatory conditions that have interactively produced this field in the Norwegian context since initial deregulation in 2000, paying particular attention to the active role played by agencies and their collective organizations. In our account, the tight regulatory conditions for temporary staffing in Norway emerge as the main mobilizing issue for the agencies, as well as other political actors such as trade unions. It is argued that the nature of national labour laws, and struggles thereon, are defining characteristics which set the Norwegian market apart from the neighbouring Swedish staffing market. The Norwegian case enables us to contribute to the wider economic geography literature on temporary staffing markets by demonstrating the fundamental importance of national regulatory processes and the contested political processes that underlie regulatory change. It also demonstrates how national distinctiveness is actively produced in relation to extra-national dynamics in terms of both regulatory imperatives (e.g. via the EU's Temporary Workers Directive) and processes of migration. Overall, we demonstrate how national staffing markets are highly dynamic, multi-scalar institutional configurations whose particularities and complexities defy attempts to generalize across groups of seemingly "similar" national economies.

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Improving Job-matching through Placement Services

Cited by 10 publications

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Welfare Reform and Its Impact on the Employment Prospects of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities

Welfare Reform and Its Impact on the Employment Prospects of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities

Resource Strategy and Signals to Resources Market in Indian Software

Contested growth: the development of norway's temporary staffing industry

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