Arbeiten, Lernen und Weiterbildung in der Zeitarbeit - Eine Befragung von Erwerbstätigen in der Zeitarbeit
Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 01.01.2005
End date : 31.12.2007
Project details
Short description
This project investigated the extent to which the content, assessments and formal characteristics of job references differ depending on the individual characteristics of the certificate holder and on job-specific characteristics. One focus was on the discrimination potential of job references with regard to the personal characteristics gender and age. The data basis consisted of job references from 800 employees. There were gender differences for individual variables, but overall they were small. The overall assessment (satisfaction phrase) was statistically significantly more positive for women. In addition, women's job references contained slightly more often additional information on social behaviour. With regard to the age of the certificate holder, no age discrimination could be detected. On the other hand, the level of ambition of the job and the holding of a management position had a significant influence on the assessments in job references.
Scientific Abstract
On behalf of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), the study "Skills development in temporary employment" surveyed 433 temporary workers in writing about their formal and informal continuing training opportunities and the characteristics of their deployment activities. This is the first quantitative study on the development of skills among temporary workers in Germany. On the whole, formal training and continuing education measures for temporary workers were very rare and were usually limited to safety instructions and specific product information in the client company. There were also hardly any formal CET offerings from the personnel service providers. Temporary employees used informal learning sources in the employing company and asked their internal colleagues or practised "learning by doing". However, the subjective learning gain from temporary work and the increase in employability were evaluated as predominantly positive by the employees themselves.
