Schmidt and Thommes (2007) raise this question in their contribution for Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (German Journal of Human Resource Research, Special Issue on Human Capital Management). Their well written paper takes into account most of the relevant literature on temporary work agencies. In my comment as practitioner at Randstad and economist at the University of Freiburg I will describe the position of Randstad in the German market (Chapter 1), add the results of some neglected international papers on the effects of temporary agency work (Chapter 2) and discuss the incentives of temporary agencies for flexworkers' human capital investments (Chapter 3).

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