@techreport{Addison2005Atypical,
abstract = {Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for
providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers
(contractors) seems to enjoy a wage premium, our cross-section results from the CPS and
NLSY for the better-known category of temporary workers point to a negative wage
differential of some 7-12 percent. It emerges that much of the latter disparity stems from
unobserved worker heterogeneity (accounting for which supports a wage advantage for
contracting work). Turning to fringes, the appearance in cross section of a potentially large
deficit in atypical worker health benefits is again reduced after accounting for permanent
unobserved individual heterogeneity. But on this occasion the reduction is very modest.
Further, there is now some indication that the wage advantage of contract workers partly
compensates for their reduced access to such benefits.},
author = {John T. Addison and Christopher J. Surfield},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J31; J4; J33; 330; atypical/contingent work; alternative work arrangements; wage differentials; employer-related health insurance; Ungesch\"{u}tzte Besch\"{a}ftigung; Lohnstruktur; Krankenversicherung; Betriebliche Sozialleistungen; Sch\"{a}tzung; Vereinigte Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {1477},
title = {?Atypical Work? and Compensation},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20776},
year = {2005}
}
