Non-standard employment in Sweden

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In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to a substantially weaker labour market attachment for females and the foreign born than suggested by conventional employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the type of fixed-term contract seems not to matter for the estimated wage premia.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1204

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: Fixed-term employment ; Part-time employment ; Labour market attachment ; Wage differentials

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Skedinger, Per
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/183433
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET