Incentives to Invest in the Human Capital of Temporary Agency Workers** From: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Thommes, Kirsten; Schmidt, Stephanie | Copyright Rainer Hampp Verlag 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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' incen...

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