Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21049 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 205
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In Britain about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. In contrast to much of continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that temporary workers report lower levels of job satisfaction, receive less work-related training, and are less well-paid than their counterparts in permanent employment. However, there is evidence that fixed-term contracts are a stepping stone to permanent work. Women (but not men) who start in fixed-term employment and move to permanent jobs fully catch up to those who start in permanent jobs.
Subjects: 
Temporary jobs
fixed term contracts
individual unobserved heterogeneity
jobspecific effects
JEL: 
J21
J30
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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