Private Labour Market Intermediaries in Cross-Border Labour Markets in Europe and Asia: International Norms, Regional Actors and Patterns of Cross-Border Labour Mobility (original) (raw)

International and national regulatory changes over the past twenty years have established private employment services as market actors in the intermediation of the supply and demand for temporary contract labour. Through the expansion of networks of temporary agency branches internationally, often in the wake of foreign direct investments by home‐country client firms, the field research reported in this chapter shows that temporary staffing agencies now play a central role in the recruitment and placement of foreign labour, in areas such as administrative, sales and technical work. The cross‐border staffing services of private intermediaries are compared in two world regions, the European Union (EU) and East and Southeast Asia, and at multiple levels of analysis. The inter‐regional comparison shows that regulatory developments differ sharply between the EU and East and Southeast Asia, yet staffing firms in both world regions practice surprisingly similar forms of cross‐border recrui...

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