-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have been through fixed-term contracts. This paper studies the duration … share of fixed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with … competing risks of terminating into permanent employment versus alternative states, and flexible duration dependence. We find …

more dynamic. This paper studies the possible implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment. I … estimate a parametric duration model using cross-sectional data drawn from the Spanish Labor Force Survey from 1980 to 1994 to …