Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi and Jeff Frank

No 205, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In Britain about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. In contrast to much of continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that temporary workers report lower levels of job satisfaction, receive less work-related training, and are less well-paid than their counterparts in permanent employment. However, there is evidence that fixed-term contracts are a stepping stone to permanent work. Women (but not men) who start in fixed-term employment and move to permanent jobs fully catch up to those who start in permanent jobs.

Keywords: individual unobserved heterogeneity; fixed term contracts; Temporary jobs; job-specific effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J30 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2000-10
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Published - published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (480), F585-606

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