Non-standard employment relations and wages among school leavers in the Netherlands

M. Robert de Vries and Maarten H. J. Wolbers
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M. Robert de Vries: Maastricht University, The Netherlands, mr.devries@roa.unimaas.nl
Maarten H. J. Wolbers: Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, mhj.wolbers@fsw.vu.nl

Work, Employment & Society, 2005, vol. 19, issue 3, 503-525

Abstract: Non-standard (alternatively, flexible) employment has become common in the Netherlands, and viewed as an important weapon for combating youth unemployment. However, if such jobs are ‘bad’, non-standard employment becomes a matter of concern. In addition, non-standard employment may hit the least qualified, excluding them from the primary segment of the labour market, where ‘good’ jobs are found. We first examine whether less-educated school leavers more often end up in a job with a non-standard employment contract than the higher educated. Then, we investigate the effect of having a non-standard employment contract on job advantages in terms of wages. The data come from three large-scale Dutch school leaver surveys as held in 2001.The results show: (a) less-educated school leavers indeed are more likely to have a non-standard contract than more highly educated ones, while (b) those in non-standard employment earn less in their jobs. A substantial part of these differences can be ascribed to the segment of the labour market in which school leavers work.

Keywords: labour market segmentation; the Netherlands; non-standard employment relations; school leavers; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017005055668

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