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Temps dip deeper: temporary employment and the midlife nadir in human well-being
Piper, Alan T. - 2020
Temporary employees rank lower than permanent employees on various measures of mental and physical health, including well-being. In parallel, much research has shown that the relationship between age and well-being traces an approximate U-shape, with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may...
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Is a temporary job better than unemployment? : a cross-country comparison based on Britsh, German, and Swiss panel data
Gebel, Michael - 2013
job increases the employment chances during the subsequent five years in (West and East) Germany and the UK. Moreover, the … years of the career. Advantages of taking up a temporary job are slightly stronger in West Germany compared to East Germany …
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How important is the type of working contract for job satisfaction of agency workers?
Pettiliot, René - 2016
Previous research has found that agency workers are less satisfied with their job than regular workers on a permanent contract. All these studies have in common that they treat agency workers as a homogeneous group; that is, they did not consider the contract type agency workers hold. This paper...
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Starting your career with a temporary job : stepping stone or "dead-end"?
Pavlopoulos, Dimitris - 2009
This paper uses panel data from the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP) to investigate the wage effect of entering the labour … results for Germany, verify the existence of a wage penalty for entering the labour market with a temporary contract. This … permanent job, while no such difference emerges in Germany. However, this initial unexplained wage inequality decreases faster …
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Women between part-time and full-time work : the influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010
in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
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How important is precautionary labor supply?
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2016 - This version: June 3, 2016
We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...
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Arbeitseinsatz in der deutschen Landwirtschaft und Beschäftigungseffekte politischer Maßnahmen
Fasterding, Ferdinand; Rixen, Daniela - In: Berichte über Landwirtschaft : Zeitschrift für … 84 (2006) 2, pp. 243-263
Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass sich der Arbeitseinsatz in der deutschen Landwirtschaft weiter vermindern wird. Trotzdem zeichnet sich ein gewisser Mangel an Fachkräften ab. Daraus ergibt sich für einen Teil der landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe, dass die dort tätigen Personen weiterhin...
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Delegation in long-term relationships
Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2012
This paper considers the e effcts of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...
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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data
Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a path dependency which might have spill-over effects on...
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