Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161393 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10770
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time work on the exit rate to full-time work using a multivariate duration model. Our findings show that the exit rate to full-time work declines when working part time (lock-in effect) but increases afterwards (stepping-stone effect), implying a trade-off between the two opposite effects. The resulting net effect of part-time work on the expected time until full-time work is positive in most cases, leading to longer spells without full-time work. This undesirable effect has increased over time, so that the value of temporary part-time work as a pathway to full-time work for the unemployed has reduced.
Subjects: 
part-time employment
work trajectories
unemployment duration
mixed proportional hazard model
JEL: 
J64
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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