-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from …

providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting … data from all four Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement Supplements to the Current Population Survey, we … that unemployed workers who become reemployed are more likely to find work in AWAs than in regular, open-ended employment …

Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering … more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we … determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than regular employment, or the alternative of continued job search …

-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential …/consulting work ; regular open-ended employment ; earnings development …

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the … pursued by the jobless for their short- and medium-term employment stability. At first sight, it appears that taking an offer … of regular employment provides the greatest degree of employment continuity for the jobless. However, closer inspection …