Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schmidt, Stephanie
• Thommes, Kirsten
• Scholz, Christian

Titel

Incentives to Invest in the Human Capital of Temporary Agency Workers

Ist Teil von

• German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung, 2007-01, Vol.21 (3), p.232-251

Ort / Verlag

London, England: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Growing diffusion of temporary agency work, in conjunction with the growing importance of human capital management, leads to the question who invests in the human capital of temporary agency workers. Therefore, we investigate the parties' incentives to invest and review the small number of existing empirical works. We show that there are incentives for all parties to invest even in general human capital, using the human capital theory and the concept of psychological contracts. Clients' incentives to invest crucially depend on their motives for using temporary agency work. Additionally, we analyze the evolving externalities of the investments and draw some conclusions concerning the implications for the further training of temporary agency workers.