The Productivity Effect of Temporary Agency Work: Evidence from German Panel Data
利用德国大型面板数据，研究发现临时派遣用工比例与用户企业生产率呈倒U型关系，对管理者优化用工结构有参考价值。
This study investigates the effect of temporary agency work on the user firm’s productivity. We hypothesise that using temporary agency work to enhance numerical flexibility and to screen job candidates may increase productivity, whereas temporary workers’ lower firm‐specific human capital and spillover effects on the user’s permanent employees may adversely affect productivity. Other than the sparse existing literature on this issue, we exploit a large panel data set and control for time‐invariant and time‐varying unobserved heterogeneity by using the system GMM estimator. We find a robust hump‐shaped effect of the extent of temporary agency work on the user firm’s productivity.