TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baumgarten, Daniel
AU  - Kvasnicka, Michael
        TI  - Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession
        PY  - 2016/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9913
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9913
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - establishment data
KW  - temporary agency work
KW  - short-time work
KW  - economic crisis
KW  - employment adjustment
KW  - labour demand
        ER  -