Is Temporary Employment a Stepping Stone for Unemployed School Leavers?

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Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a direct transition from unemployment to permanent employment. In order to control for selective participation in temporary employment we include a large set of explanatory variables which have been especially collected to study school-leavers. We apply the AIC-information criterion to select the appropriate specification for unobserved heterogeneity. Based on the information criteria we conclude that given our data, there is no support for a model with selection in unobserved characteristics. Simulation exercises provide insights into the development of the effect of temporary employment over time. For a sample of unemployed Flemish school-leavers we find that in the short run temporary employment delays the school leaver's transition to permanent employment. However, in the long run temporary employment acts as a stepping stone and decreases the duration until permanent employment.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 08-093

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Contracts ; Labor Economics Policies ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Thema: temporary employment ; school leavers ; labour market policy ; Absolventen ; Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag ; Berufliche Integration ; Flandern ; Belgien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Verhofstadt, Elsy ; Goebel, Christian
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27570
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ