Identifying the Wage Differential in the Temporary Employment Services Sector: Evidence for South Africa using Administrative Tax Records.
Although the temporary employment services (TES) or labour broker sector has been growing in recent decades, and there has been much heated public debate on whether the jobs offered constitute 'decent work', there has been little empirical research on this sector in developing countries. In this pap...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 58; no. 10; pp. 2065 - 2089 |
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Oct2022
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