Transitions into Permanent Employment in Spain: An Empirical Analysis for Young Workers

J. Ignacio García‐Pérez and Fernando Muñoz‐Bullón
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: J. Ignacio García Pérez () and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón

British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, vol. 49, issue 1, 103-143

Abstract: This article analyses the transitions into permanent employment of a sample of young temporary employees in Spain for the period 1996–2003. For this purpose, we apply multiple-spell duration techniques to a longitudinal dataset of temporary workers obtained from Social Security registers. Our main findings are as follows. First, the transitions from a temporary contract into unemployment and into another temporary contract are very high when compared with transitions into permanent employment. Second, the entry into permanent employment — although slightly increasing with tenure at the temporary contract — is very low; the only exception is that of semi‐skilled and unskilled individuals, who are particularly likely to enter into permanent employment at the 24th and the 36th month of tenure (respectively). Third, we find that there exists a substantial proportion of workers with unobservable characteristics that make them show high exit rates from temporary employment and, at the same time, a rapid exit from unemployment — while the remaining individuals exit from unemployment more slowly, particularly those who are receiving unemployment benefits.

Date: 2011
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Working Paper: Transitions into permanent employment in Spain: an empirical analysis for young workers (2007)
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