Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies? CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 07.1, 2007

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative administrative data set we use a mixed proportional hazard rate model to examine whether employment duration has changed in response to these reforms. We find that the repeated prolongation of the maximum period for hiring-out employees significantly increased average employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure.

Information Guide: Agencies and Decentralised Bodies of the European Union

A guide to information sources on the agencies and decentralised bodies of the European Union, with hyperlinks to further sources of information within European Sources Online and on external websites.

Worry activation impairs intelligence test performace only under ego depletion

Detrimental effects of anxiety on cognitive performance have been explained by the activation of worry, detracting attention away from the task at hand. However, recent research has shown that anxiety is only related to performance when self-control capacity is low (i.e., ego depletion). The aim of the present work has been to extend these findings by showing that activation of worry will interfere with cognitive performance more strongly when self-control capacity is momentarily depleted compared to intact. After manipulations of self-control capacity and worry activation, 70 undergraduates completed a standardized intelligence test. As expected, activation of worry was associated with lower performance when self-control capacity was depleted, but had no effect when self-control capacity was intact. The findings implicate that worry may play a causal role in the anxiety–performance relationship, but only when its regulation by self-control is momentarily hindered.

Affirmative action in Salt Lake's criminal justice agencies : a report /

Includes bibliographical references.

The U.S. trade finance agencies : a special report by the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee.

"Export-Import Bank of the United States, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (TDA) are small, highly specialized government agencies which ensure that U.S. firms have access to trade and investment finance."--P.1.

Comprehensive health planning as carried out by State and areawide agencies in three States, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; report to the Congress,

"B-164031(2)."