The output employment elasticity and the increased use of temporary contracts: evidence from Poland

Krzysztof Bartosik () and Jerzy Mycielski ()
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Krzysztof Bartosik: Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

No 2017-23, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: The paper investigates how increased use of temporary contracts has affected employment elasticity with respect to output in Poland. Our empirical analysis covers the period of 1996-2016, with particular focus on the years 2001-2016. Several econometric tools are used to explore the relation between growth in GDP and employment. Our study shows that widespread adoption of temporary contracts contributes positively to total employment elasticity. However, what we have observed is that the share of temporary contracts has increased, but the total employment elasticity has decreased. We related this to an inverse relationship between the growth of permanent and temporary employment and the opposite trends in output elasticities of temporary and permanent employment.

Keywords: labour demand; temporary contracts; economic growth; labour market institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J21 J23 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-mac
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Journal Article: The output employment elasticity and the increased use of temporary contracts: Evidence from Poland (2020)
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