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Temporary contracts and transitions to stable jobs in Italy

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Picchio, Matteo [UCL]

This paper evaluates whether and to what extent temporary jobs have been springboards to stable jobs in Italy. Using the 2000, 2002, and 2004 waves of the Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth, several dynamic unobserved effects probit models for the probability of having a permanent job are estimated. The main result is that a temporary job, rather than unemployment, significantly increases the probability of having a permanent job 2 years later by about 13.5-16 percentage points. The robustness of this stepping-stone effect is then assessed relaxing parametric assumptions on the unobserved individual heterogeneity distribution.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2008
Journal information "Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations" - , p. 147-174 (2008)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Blackwell publishers ltd.
issn 1121-7081
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
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Bibliographic reference Picchio, Matteo. Temporary contracts and transitions to stable jobs in Italy. In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations, , p. 147-174 (2008)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/66163