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| Title: | | The effect of product market competition on job instability  |
| Authors: | | Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5669 |
| Abstract: | | This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that sector in a given year by more than 30%. The effect is identified by means of exogenous shifts in competition brought about by changes in legislation. |
| Subjects: | | product market competition fixed-term employment labor contract |
| JEL: | | J24 M51 C41 C33 C35 J6 L1 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201105173047 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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