Workers and Firms Sorting into Temporary Jobs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Berton, Fabio; Garibaldi, Pietro
• 署名单位: University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro; University of Turin; Collegio Carlo Alberto
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.2533.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: F125-F154
• 关键词: unemployment-insurance; employment protection; severance payments; stepping stones; MARKET; duration; transitions

摘要

The liberalisation of temporary contracts has led to a sizeable share of jobs covered by temporary contracts. This article proposes a matching model of unemployment in which temporary (fixed-term) and permanent (open-ended) jobs coexist in a long-run equilibrium. From the labour demand standpoint, the choice of the type of contract leads to a trade-off between an ex-ante speed of hiring and an ex-post flexible dismissal rate. Empirically, we test with Italian longitudinal data whether non-employment spells that lead to a temporary job are shorter on average. The empirical evidence strongly supports our theoretical prediction.