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DIJ Tokyo
Cross-Border Temporary Staffing. Market-Making and Transnational Regulation in Inter-Regional Comparison
Projektbeginn: 2014
Projektende: 2017
Antragsteller/-in, Sprecher/-in, Projektleitung:
Steffen Heinrich
Themengebiet:
Soziologie,
Japanologie
Ort:
Japan,
Europa
The research examines the creation of cross-border labour markets for temporary agency work. The focus is on the role of private labour market intermediaries and the emerging governance of cross-border temporary placements in two world regions – the European Union and East Asia. Theoretically, the research draws together theories of transnational organizations and the economic sociology of market-making. Both perspectives foreground the role of actors and focus on the negotiated order of institution-building to regulate labour markets. The leading research questions concern how and why markets for temporary labour are taking on transnational dimensions, and whether these markets can and will be governed by transnational institutions. In order to generalize beyond the EU as the typical unit of reference for many transnationalization studies, the research design is inter-regionally comparative, building on the language-based regional competence of the research team in East Asian studies. Private firm organizations (transnational temporary staffing firms) and interest communities (employer and labour representatives) form the units of analysis, while the interplay of national and (supranational) regional activities constitute the levels of analysis in the proposed research design.