Temporary Agency Work, the Changing Employment Relationship and its Impact on Human Resource Management
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Keywords
Temporary Agency Work; Employment Relationship; New Institutional Economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
- J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
- M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
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