The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis

Baudy, Philipp; Beißinger, Thomas

The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis

dc.contributor.author	Baudy, Philipp	de
dc.contributor.author	Beißinger, Thomas	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:51:06Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:51:06Z
dc.date.created	2015-04-09
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Focusing on the cost-reducing motive behind the use of temporary agency employment, this paper aims at providing a better theoretical understanding of the effects of temporary agency work on the wage-setting process, trade unions’ rents, firms’ profits and employment. It is shown that trade unions may find it optimal to accept lower wages to prevent firms from using temporary agency workers. Hence, the firms’ option to use agency workers may affect wage setting also in those firms that only employ regular workers. However, if firms decide to employ agency workers, trade union wage claims will increase for the (remaining) regular workers. An intensive use of temporary agency workers in high-wage firms may therefore be the cause and not the consequence of the high wage level in those firms. Even though we assume monopoly unions that ascribe the highest possible wage-setting power to the unions, the economic rents of trade unions decline because of the firms’ option to use temporary agency work, whereas firms’ profits may increase.	en
dc.identifier.swb	428654460
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5895
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-10664
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2015,01
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Trade unions	en
dc.subject	Temporary agency work	en
dc.subject	Wage-setting process	en
dc.subject	Labour market segmentation	en
dc.subject	Dual labour markets	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Lohnpolitik	de
dc.subject.gnd	Zeitarbeit	de
dc.title	The impact of temporary agency work on trade union wage setting : a theoretical analysis	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1066
local.series.issueNumber	2015,01
local.series.title	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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