Soohan Kim
Graduate Student in Sociology
10/16/2007
- Research Interests
- Work, Organization, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology
- Qualifying Paper Title
- Costs of Protection? Employment Protection and the Diffusion of Temporary Help Agency Employment in U.S. Organizations, 1971 to 2000
- Committee
- Frank Dobbin, Peter Marsden, Mary Brinton
- Abstract
- The temporary help agency employment has rapidly grown in US organizations in the past three decades. Labor economists view the growth of temporary help agency (THA) employment as a consequence of employment protection regulations. By contrast, this study finds that the enforcement and intraorganizational consequences of employment protection have discouraged the adoption of THA employment by employers. Using a sample of 817 establishments from Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)-1 reports, matched with a longitudinal survey data on employment practices, I conducted event history analyses to examine the adoption of THA employment among US organizations from 1971 to 2000. The analyses demonstrate that an organization that has experienced discrimination suits is less likely to adopt THA employment. An organization that has had an EEO policy in place for a long time is also less likely to adopt THA employment. This study suggests that employment protection has restrained, not fostered, the diffusion of THA employment.
Miscellaneous Additional Information
- Optional Sections on General Exams
- Sociology of Development, Political Sociology
- Software Skills
- STATA, SPSS
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