Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34091 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2527
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper develops a tractable empirical approach to estimate the effect of on-the-job tenure on the permanent and the transitory variance of earnings. The model is also used to evaluate earnings instability associated with fixed-term contracts (short-tenure contracts) in Italy. Our results indicate that each year of tenure on the job reduces earnings instability on average by 15%. Workers on a fixed-term contract on average have an earnings instability 10% higher than workers on a permanent contract. Workers who spend their entire working life on fixed-term contracts can expect an earnings instability twice as high.
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