Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62356 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6746
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market reform aimed at flexibilizing and liberalizing the Italian labor market by a widespread use of temporary work arrangements in 2003, and immediately preceding the economic downturn starting in the second half of 2007. The data-set used is the 2004-2007 IT-SILC individual panel. We apply a discrete-time duration analysis and estimate a competing-risk model for assessing to which extent, and for whom, starting a temporary job after 2004 results within a 3-years span in a stepping stone to permanent employment rather than a dead end out of the labor market or in precarious jobs. We find that temporary contracts have a positive impact only on men's transitions to permanent employment. School leavers, workers in the South, as well as women, are instead rather penalized after a temporary job. They have an higher probability to remain trapped in temporary contracts than men and an higher probability of exiting the labour market. In particular, school leavers entering the labour market with a temporary contract experience relatively high exit-rates to non-employment just after the first year of the contract.
Subjects: 
mixed multinomial logit
discrete duration data
temporary jobs
JEL: 
J24
C41
C33
C35
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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