Ichino, Andrea; Mealli, Fabrizia; Nannicini, Tommaso - In: Giornale degli Economisti 64 (2005) 1, pp. 1-27
This paper measures to what extent Temporary Work Agency (TWA) employment creates a "springboard" toward permanent jobs, or a "trap" of endless precariousness. Applying Propensity Score matching in the presence of choice-based sampling, we estimate the causal effect of the treatment "TWA...