Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183433 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1204
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to a substantially weaker labour market attachment for females and the foreign born than suggested by conventional employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the type of fixed-term contract seems not to matter for the estimated wage premia.
Subjects: 
Fixed-term employment
Part-time employment
Labour market attachment
Wage differentials
JEL: 
J21
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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