Contracting out Employment Services Involving Temporary Agency Work in Germany

Ochel, Wolfgang (2007): Contracting out Employment Services Involving Temporary Agency Work in Germany. Published in: Journal of European Social Policy , Vol. 17, No. 2 (2007): pp. 125-138.

Abstract

Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for integrating jobseekers into non-subsidised employment. By contracting out employment services, the Public Employment Service seeks to exploit efficiency gains characteristic of enterprises that compete in quasi-markets. In order to integrate jobseekers as rapidly as possible, a result-oriented system of incentives has been developed. This paper describes the institutional setting and ex-amines its appropriateness for efficient job placement services.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Contracting-out, personnel service agency, quasi-markets, temporary agency work
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J41 - Labor Contracts; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search; L - Industrial Organization > L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise > L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J23 - Labor Demand

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