Temporary Agency Work in Europe

Michon, François

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“…The keywords and search terms to identify studies of TAW include general terms for atypical employment forms like "flexible work arrangements" and "contingent employment" as well as specific search terms for TAW like "temporary agency work," "employment agency work," and "temporary employment agency." The search was limited to the period from 2000 until 2016 because previous evidence suggests a rapid increase in TAW and changes in several regulations of TAW since the end of the 1990s (European Commission, 2014; Manske & Scheffelmeier, 2015;Michon, 1999).…”

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Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe: a systematic review and research agenda

2019

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The current systematic literature review aimed to analyse the associations between temporary agency work (TAW), job satisfaction, and mental health in Europe, as well as to outline a future research agenda. Twenty-eight scientific articles were identified by searching different data bases (i.e. PSYNDEX, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science) for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016. Our review reveals first that TAW is not consistently negatively related to job satisfaction. However, job insecurity and working conditions are important mediators in the relation of TAW and lowered job satisfaction. Second, TAW is not consistently related to all investigated types of mental health impairments. However, when focusing on specific outcomes and comparing temporary agency workers to permanent employees, we still find consistent evidence regarding higher levels of depression and fatigue among temporary agency workers. Inconsistent associations between TAW, job satisfaction and mental health can partly be attributed to unfavourable methodological aspects of the included primary studies. To address these aspects, future research should consider applying a standard measurement of TAW, including a minimum of meaningful confounding variables, improving the operationalisation of outcome variables and the study design.

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Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe: a systematic review and research agenda

2019

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“…Towards the end of the last century, analyses of the deconstruction and then the breakdown of the standard employment relationship (SER) put forward a number of concepts such as 'non-standard work' or 'precarious work' (Askenazy, 2003;Cingolani, 2005;Michon, 2006). Similarly, at the international level, comparative benchmark studies such as those of the OECD (OECD, 2016) highlighted a number of indicators such as the 'precariousness rate' (based on the use of fixed-term contracts or temporary work), the 'employment rate', which includes any form of employment -be it typical or atypical -and indicators of employment protection legislation (EPL), which measures only one aspect of labour market flexibility, namely the ease with which employers can resort to dismissal.…”

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Institutional change and transformations in labour and employment standards

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Dieuaide

2018

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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Initially employed by lawyers and geopolitical experts, the concept of ‘grey zones’ can be usefully applied to analyse the recent changes on the labour market. It provides a means of bypassing the dualist approaches that contrast waged work and self-employment, insiders and outsiders, or, then again, formal and informal work in a binary way. It provides visibility of the decoherence between the institutions associated with waged status and actual employment practices, and the layering of several different kinds of regulation. The ‘grey zones’ approach thus provides an analytical framework for understanding a wide variety of situations and studying various processes of institutional change, giving the actors of this change their rightful place. Although grey zones are often areas where laws are absent or weak, through these actors they can also give rise to new institutions.

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“…This growth in agency work in the UK has depended on a variety of dynamics, ranging from the nature of national regulation to changes in the labour process and industrial structure. Some studies have explored the economic and socio‐cultural factors driving this development (Arrowsmith, 2006; Bergström and Storrie, 2003; Koene and Purcell, 2004; Michon, 2005). Others have considered the roles of low paid and forced migrant labour in domestic work (Anderson, 2007), hospitality (Anderson et al ., 2006; Wright and Pollert, 2006), the au pair sector (Ruhs and Anderson, 2006; Williams and Balaz, 2004), in agriculture and the sex industry (Anderson and Rogaly, 2005) and more widely (Anderson et al ., 2006; Haque, 2002; Kempton, 2002; McKay et al ., 2006; Markova and Balck, 2007; Martin, 2005; Vasta, 2004; Wills et al ., 2009).…”

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The operation and management of agency workers in conditions of vulnerability

McKay

Markova

2010

Industrial Relations Journal

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This article focuses on the operation and management of agency labour by employers and observes that there are strong contradictions between the employers' stated reasons for using agency labour and the employment agencies' perceptions of why such labour is utilised. While discussing agency labour generally, the article also takes account of the position of migrant workers within the agency sector, since agencies have represented a significant route into employment for migrant labour. It draws primarily on 22 in-depth interviews with employers and employment agencies mainly in the food processing, cleaning and care sectors. The research revealed that while some employers were using agency staff to cover for specific peaks in production, others had used it as an alternative method of dealing with vacancies that otherwise might have resulted in permanent employment.

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Temporary Agency Work in Europe

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Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe: a systematic review and research agenda

Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe: a systematic review and research agenda

Institutional change and transformations in labour and employment standards

The operation and management of agency workers in conditions of vulnerability

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