Arbeitspapier
Temporary Work in Turbulent Times: The Swedish Experience
Sweden has experienced a substantial increase in temporary work over the 1990s, with most of the rise occurring during a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted for 10 percent of the number of employees; by the end of the decade they accounted for 16 percent. The paper presents the Swedish institutional setting, documents basic stylised facts about fixed-term contracts, and discusses the causes of their increased prevalence. Our analysis reveals that open-ended and temporary employment exhibit strikingly different cyclical behaviour with temporary employment being more volatile. A recession is associated with an initial decline in temporary employment followed by a sharp rise from the trough to the end of the recession. We argue that the severe recession of the 1990s is a major factor behind the rise in temporary work in Sweden. Adverse macroeconomic conditions make firms more prone to offer fixed-term contracts and workers more willing to accept them.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2002:1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- Thema
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Temporary jobs
Labour market dynamics
Unemployment
Leiharbeit
Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag
Konjunktur
Konjunkturelle Arbeitslosigkeit
Schweden
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Holmlund, Bertil
Storrie, Donald
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Uppsala University, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Uppsala
- (wann)
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2001
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2239
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Holmlund, Bertil
- Storrie, Donald
- Uppsala University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2001