Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21459 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 780
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees. Using indicators for unpaid overtime work and absences taken from the Swiss Labor Force Survey we present evidence that temporary workers indeed provide higher effort than permanent employees: Their probability of working unpaid overtime exceeds that of permanently employed workers by 60 percent. We show the heterogeneity of this effect across different types of temporary contracts, investigate differences between men and women, and discuss the relevance of adverse selection into temporary employment.
Subjects: 
temporary work
contract-based incentives
absenteeism
overtime
moral hazard
career concerns
JEL: 
C25
M50
J41
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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