Productivity in German manufacturing firms: Does fixed-term employment matter?

Arbeitspapier

A growing proportion of employees are working under fixed-term contracts. This paper empirically analyzes whether this strategy actually improves firm productivity. To this end, a large dataset of German manufacturing firms and various panel data models are used in order to reveal the expected non-linear effect. Thereby the analysis also takes into account distortions that may result from selection into the use of fixed-term employment. The results of the investigation show that there is no significant effect of fixed-term employment on labor productivity when controlling for the selection effect.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Schumpeter Discussion Papers ; No. 2012-004

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Organization of Production ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
• Thema: fixed-term employment ; labor productivity ; manufacturing ; Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag ; Arbeitsproduktivität ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nielen, Sebastian ; Schiersch, Alexander
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Wuppertal, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
• (wo): Wuppertal
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/68705
• URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:468-20120312-105213-9
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ