Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?

By Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, J. Frank. Social Science Research Network, 2002

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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.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets during ‘The Great Recession’ (2012, neutral): “Of the four substantive papers in the collection, three find negative effects of temporary employment (Blanchard and Landier, 2002; Booth et al., 2002 and Dolado et al., 2002) with only one (Holmlund and Storrie, 2002) suggesting a (partially) positive role.”
Multiple job holding in the United Kingdom: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey (2009, background): “( 2002 ) find that, in general terms that seasonal-casual men and women are significantly less likely to be satisfied with their jobs than permanent workers.”
Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity: A Tale of Two Reforms (2012, neutral): “Some papers show that being assigned to a temporary contract has a causal e¤ect on the probability of nding a permanent match (for example Ichino et al., 2008; Booth et al., 2002).”
From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and Their Sensitivity? (2008, background): “(2002) for Switzerland; and Booth et al. (2002) for the UK.”
Labour market mobility and employment security of male employees in Europe: `trade-off' or `flexicurity'? (2008, neutral): “…partly the result of flexibilization, has an enduring negative effect on the workers’ future career in terms of employment stability and earnings (Booth et al., 2002; DiPrete et al., 1997; European Commission, 2003; Gangl, 2003; Gangl, 2006; Golsch, 2003; Kalleberg, 2000; Muffels and Luijkx,…”
Stepping stones for the unemployed: the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until (regular) work (2004, background): “The use of temporary workers may also reduce cyclical swings in labour productivity, since firms might be better able to shed workers quickly during a downturn (Estevão and Lach 1999). Moreover, temporary contracts imply lower layoff costs and could thus stimulate employment creation. The literature”
Are temporary jobs a port of entry into permanent employment (2011, background): “Booth et al. (2002) for the UK, Hagen (2003) for Germany, and Addison and Surfield (2009) for the U.S. provide evidence in favour of the port-of-entry hypothesis; Hotchkiss (1999) and Autor and Houseman (2002) for the U.S., Güell and Petrongolo (2007) for Spain, De Graaf-Zijl et al. (2004) for the…”
Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device (2014, neutral): “+eT(1 �)�E[�jXT (�) = 1]; (9) en = eT + (eP eg); ( 10 )”
Precarious employment: understanding an emerging social determinant of health. (2014, background): “Although flexible employment may be beneficial for some workers (33, 72), for the most part employment flexibility tends to erode employment conditions (36).”