Wage Differentials and Temporary Jobs in Italy

Matteo Picchio

No 2006033, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: The focus of this paper is to analyse the wage effects of temporary jobs using the 2000 and 2002 waves of the Survey of Italian Households’ Income and Wealth (SHIW). Exploiting the short longitudinal dimension of the survey and taking into account of individual-and job-specific unobservable components result in an estimated wage penalty for temporary workers of around 12-13%. Furthermore, there is evidence of higher wage returns to seniority for temporary workers, generating a reduction in the wage gap by about 2.3 percentage points after one year of tenure.

Keywords: Temporary employment; fixed-term; contracts; wage differential; returns to seniority; individual effects; firm effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J31 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55
Date: 2006-07-01
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