Firms’ Use of Temporary Employment and Permanent Workers’ Concerns about Job Security: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Christian Pfeifer () and Jens Mohrenweiser
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Christian Pfeifer: Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lueneburg, 21335 Lueneburg, Germany

Economies, 2023, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-12

Abstract: This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core-periphery hypothesis predicts that permanent workers should have fewer concerns about job security if the firm employs temporary workers to deal with demand fluctuations. On the other hand, a counteracting substitution effect might increase concerns about job security. Using linked employer-employee data and estimating regression models at the worker level with establishment fixed effects, evidence supports the core-periphery hypothesis for temporary agency work but not for fixed-term contracts.

Keywords: core-periphery hypothesis; fixed-term contracts; job security; linked employer-employee data; temporary agency work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E F I J O Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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