Temp Agency Work: Worker Welfare, Organization and Efficiency (TEMPO)

Based on the knowledge gaps in the literature and in the public debate, our project has four main research objectives:
1. provide broad descriptive and causal evidence on how temp agency work impact workers’ pay and employment trajectories as well as firms’ use of temp agency work, using a unique data material, in conjunction with state-of the art credible research methods
2. better understand temp agencies roles as employers and gatekeepers in the labor market
3. use the results from the quantitative and qualitative studies to inform a theoretical model on how temp agencies contribute to aggregate unemployment
4. study how the regulation of temp agency work is understood in EEA and Norwegian law, and how the empirical evidence from the first part of the project can affect the legal conclusions