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Firms' use of temporary employment and permanent workers' concerns about job security : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Pfeifer, Christian; Mohrenweiser, Jens - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 8, pp. 1-12

This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core-periphery hypothesis predicts that permanent workers should have...

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Buy flexible, pay more : the role of temporary contracts on wage inequality

Albanese, Andrea; Gallo, Giovanni - 2020

We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in temporary and open-ended contracts for the period of 2005-2015. To estimate the presence of differentials...

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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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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using...

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The structure of the wage gap for temporary workers : evidence from Australian panel data

Lass, Inga; Wooden, Mark - 2017

This study uses panel data for Australia from the HILDA Survey to estimate the wage differential between workers in temporary jobs and workers in permanent jobs. Specifically, unconditional quantile regression methods with fixed effects are used to examine how this gap varies over the entire...

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The impact of employment protection on the temporary employment services sector : evidence from South Africa using data from tax records

Cassim, Aalia - 2020

Attempts to regulate the temporary employment sector have had mixed results internationally. In South Africa, temporary employment was regulated in 2015 through amendments to the Labour Relations Act. This paper uses administrative data to examine the short-term impact of strengthening...

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Stepping-stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....

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Does Fixed-Term Contract Employment Raise Firms' Adjustment-Speed? Evidence from an Establishment Panel for West-Germany

Hagen, Tobias - 2003

Fixed-term labour contracts were liberalised in Germany in order to raise the flexibility of the labour market. However …-Establishment Panel for West Germany in 1996-2000. Using a GMM estimator and comparing the estimated adjustment of total employment to the …

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Do fixed term contracts increase the long term employment opportunities of the unemployed?

Hagen, Tobias - 2003

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Do fixed-term contracts increase the long-term employment opportunities of the unemployed?

Hagen, Tobias - 2003

The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...

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