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Di Porto, Edoardo; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development in response to the change in flexibility within a search and matching model; empirically, we...

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Does apprenticeship improve job opportunities? : a regression discontinuity approach

Picchio, Matteo; Staffolani, Stefano - 2013

In Italy the reforms of the last twenty years shaped a dual labour market with different levels of employment protection for permanent jobs, on one side, and temporary jobs like apprenticeships and fixed-term contracts, on the other side. The main difference between apprentices and other types...

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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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Recent developments in the Irish labour market : is it all good news?

Kelly, Elish; Barrett, Alan - 2017

Across many countries, the rise of atypical work has been noted whereby employees are increasingly in less secure contractual situations. While this might lead to more flexible labour markets, there are potential downsides for individuals. We explore the prevalence of atypical work in Ireland...

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The impact of temporary employment on productivity

Lisi, Domenico; Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - In: Journal for labour market research 50 (2017) 1, pp. 91-112

Recent papers in the economic literature emphasise that the use of temporary contracts (TE) could have a detrimental effect on productivity. However, there are different reasons to believe that the impact of TE might not be homogeneous across sectors. In this article, we study the impact of TE...

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Does dual employment protection affect TFP? : evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan J.; Ortigueira, Salvador; Stucchi, Rodolfo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 4, pp. 421-459

This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...

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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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Temporary Contract and Monopsony Power in the UK Labour Market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1986) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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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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Two-Sided Search and Temporary Employment

Paolini, Dimitri - 2001

The objective of this paper is to model explicitly the possibility to form temporary matching in a model of two-sided search. The agents (workers and employers) differ in their human quality endowment. In a search equilibrium agents form subintervals and are only matched to agents within their...

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