Temporary jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?

AL Booth, M Francesconi, J Frank - The economic journal, 2002 - academic.oup.com
In Britain, about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary
jobs. This proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British …

Drawing lessons from the boom of temporary jobs in Spain

JJ Dolado, C García‐Serrano… - The Economic …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
We review some lessons from the Spanish experience of using temporary employment
contracts for regular jobs since 1984. The focus is on the role of fixed‐term contracts with low …

How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain

M Güell, B Petrongolo - Labour economics, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of their
conversion into permanent ones in Spain, where the share of fixed-term employment is the …

The impact of employment protection mandates on demographic temporary employment patterns: International microeconomic evidence

LM Kahn - The Economic Journal, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract This article uses 1994–8 International Adult Literacy Survey microdata for Canada,
Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the US to study the impact of …

Temporary work in turbulent times: The Swedish experience

B Holmlund, D Storrie - The economic journal, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The paper presents the Swedish institutional setting, documents basic stylised facts about
fixed‐term contracts, and discusses the causes of their increased prevalence. Open‐ended …

The employment effects of severance payments with wage rigidities

P Garibaldi, GL Violante - The Economic Journal, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Firing costs have two separate dimensions: a transfer from the firm to the laid‐off worker and
a tax paid outside the firm‐worker pair. To avoid the 'bonding critique'most of the existing …

Does deregulation help? The impact of employment protection reforms on youths' unemployment and temporary employment risks in Europe

M Gebel, J Giesecke - European Sociological Review, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rigid employment protection legislation (EPL) has been blamed as the root of youths' labour
market integration problems in Europe. Many European countries have reacted by …

Labor market flexibility and inequality: the changing skill-based temporary employment and unemployment risks in Europe

M Gebel, J Giesecke - Social Forces, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In this article we use comparative micro data for 15 European countries covering the period
1992–2007 to study the impact of labor market reforms on the skill-related individual risk of …

Temporary contracts and labour market segmentation in Spain: An employment-rent approach

JG Polavieja - European Sociological Review, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Deregulation through temporary employment has generated important inequalities in the
Spanish labour market. The article presents a theoretical model as well as empirical …

Reassessing labour market reforms: Temporary contracts as a screening device

R Faccini - The Economic Journal, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The literature has warned against the risk that expanding temporary contracts might lead to
segmented labour markets while failing to reduce unemployment. This article reports …