Flex Work Research Centre

International Conference Flex Work Research Centre 2011

Introduction

The University of Amsterdam has organised, with the support of Eurociett (the European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies), a research conference on “External Forms of Flexibility in the Labour Market: Competition or Complementarity”. It is part of their cooperation in “flexworkresearch” (www.flexworkresearch.org), the knowledge centre for researchers and policymakers on flexible work. The conference took place in Leuven, Belgium on October 27-28 at the Faculty Club. Some 25 reknowned researchers were invited to share their latest research findings with members of euroCIETT and some policymakers.

You can now download the powerpoints from the presenters in the program below.

Thursday 27 October:

13.00 - 13.15 hours Introduction by Els Sol, Program leader Flexworkresearch (University of Amsterdam)
13.15 - 13.50 hours Plenary by Susan Houseman (Upjohn Institute)
Temporary Help Employment in Recession and Recovery
13.50 - 14.00 hours Welcome by Annemarie Muntz (President Eurociett)
14.00 - 15.15 hours Parallel workshops (all paper presentations) first session
1 The costs and benefits of different forms of flexible labour
  1. Sandra Fisher (Clarkson University),
    The organizational utility of contingent work: a cost/value model
  2. Robert Vergeer (TNO Arbeid),
    External Flex in the labour market: competition or complementarity?
  3. Ronald Dekker (University of Tilburg),
    Flexible labour supply in the Netherlands 1996-2009, consequences for employment security
2 Flex as stepping stone
  1. Elke Jahn (University of Nuremberg),
    Does temporary agency work serve as a stepping stone for migrants?
  2. Anneke Goudswaard (TNO Arbeid),
    Flexible labour: step up or step down?
  3. Christopher Mathieu (Copenhagen Business School),
    Multiployment- employment security, emancipation, efficiency and innovation
15.15 - 15.45 hours Coffee / Tea Break
15.45 - 17.00 hours Parallel workshops second session
3 Temporary work and well-being
  1. Filipa Sobral (University of Lisboa) ,
    Training that promotes employability and temporary agency workers’ exhaustion and affective commitment
  2. Saija Mauno (University of Jyväskylä),
    The effects of long-term temporary work compared to permanent work on perceived work characteristics and well-being: a three wave study
  3. Nele de Cuyper (Catholic University of Leuven),
    Temporary work and well-being: a meta-analysis
4 Managing Control, Compliance and Enforcement 2.0
  1. Els Sol (University of Amsterdam),
    Is this the future? Hybrid Models of Regulating Temporary Work Agencies
  2. Elsa Underhill (Deakin University),
    Improving the effectiveness of OHS regulation in the temporary agency sector through enhanced host-supplier relationships
  3. Audrey Levêque (University of Liège),
    How to measure quality in job transitions?
17.00 - 17.15 hours Coffee / Tea Break
17.15 - 18.00 hours Parallel workshops third session
5 Flexible employment: perspectives and developments in France and Germany
  1. François Michon (University of Paris I),
    Non-Regular Employment in France: the French flexicurity model and its segmented labour markets
  2. Ida Regalia (University of Milan),
    Temporary agency work: A viable alternative to the standard employment relationship?
6 Managing Employment 2.0
  1. Bas Koene (Erasmus University Rotterdam),
    Issues in management and organization of a flexible workforce
  2. Wilson Wong (The Work Foundation),
    The future of work: what’s the big deal about flexibility?
18.15 - 18.45 hours Drinks
19.30 hours Dinner

Friday 28 October:

09.00 - 09.30 hours Plenary: Presentation Boston Consultancy Group Research
09.30 - 09.45 hours Coffee / Tea Break
09.45 - 11.00 hours Parallel workshops fourth session
7 Flexible employment: a Mediterranean perspective
  1. Stefano Sacchi (University of Milan),
    Are flexible workers more insecure? An integrated approach based on micro-data
  2. Miguel Malo (University of Salamanca),
    The impact of labour market reforms at the margin on different generations: temporary contracts in Spain
  3. Gabriel Amitsis (University of Athens),
    Flexibility and the rule of law in active labour market policies: policy dilemmas for the rudimentary Greek social model
8 Sustainable work communities
  1. Pamela Wehling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum),
    Reassembling bonds between individual and organisation?
  2. Daniëlle van Jaarsveld (University of British Columbia),
    Institutional Effects on Workforce Blending Choices and Their Organizational Outcomes: Evidence from Call Centers
  3. Brandynn Holgate (University of Massachusetts Boston),
    Facilitating labor market transitions for workers facing barriers: the role of alternative staffing organizations
11.00 - 11.15 hours Coffee / Tea Break
11.15 - 12.30 hours Parallel workshops fifth session
9 Flexicurity
  1. Andranik Tangian (Hans Boeckler Foundation),
    Macro-analysis of flexicurity response to the crisis
  2. Ángel Alonso Domínguez (University of Oviedo),
    Working transition in the Spanish labour market: a flexicurity approach
10 Organizational expectations and the development of temporary agency workers
  1. Hedwig Vermeulen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen),
    Training of workers in temporary employment agencies
  2. Catherine Casey (University of Leicester),
    Changing modes of Employment: Problems of skill development and qualities of work
12.30 - 12.45 hours Plenary: Wrapping up and Goodbye
12.45 – 13.30 hours Lunch