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Do Temporary Help Agencies Help? Temporary employment transitions for low-skilled workers

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorCarrasco, Raquel
dc.contributor.authorGálvez Iniesta, Ismael
dc.contributor.authorJerez, Belén
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.funderMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad (España)es
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-10T18:05:20Z
dc.date.available2022-05-10T18:05:20Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-10
dc.description.abstractWe investigate how being employed by a Temporary Help Agency (THA) affects transition rates to alternative labor market states for low-skilled workers. Our approach is based on the estimation of competing risk discrete duration models, and reveals the importance of accounting for short duration dependence. We use Spanish administrative data for the period 2005-2017. We find that having a THA contract rather than a direct-hire temporary contract increases the probability of entering into unemployment or another agency job at all durations. Agency workers are more likely to transition to permanent employment than their direct-hire counterparts, but these transitions are very infrequent for both. The positive effect of THA employment on the probability of transitioning to a permanent job is procyclical. By contrast, the positive effect on the probability of entering unemployment (or another agency job) increased during the Great Recession relative to the previous economic expansion, and has remained high during the recovery. In words, agency jobs in Spain are characterized by higher unemployment risk and persistence than regular temporary jobs, and these differences have intensified in recent years. Accouting for unobserved heterogeneity does not alter our main results.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe gratefully acknowledge the support from MINECO/FEDER (ECO2015-65408-R, ECO2016-76818, RTI2018-095231-B-I00 and PID2019-107161GB-C31).en
dc.identifier.issn2340-5031
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34756
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001995es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking paper. Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseries22-04
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2016-76818-C3-1-Pes
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. RTI2018-095231-B-I00es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. PID2019-107161GB-C31es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. ECO2015-65408-Res
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.jelJ2
dc.subject.jelJ4
dc.subject.jelJ24
dc.subject.jelJ62
dc.subject.jelC34
dc.subject.otherTemporary Help Agencyen
dc.subject.otherTemporary Employmenten
dc.subject.otherCompeting Risk Duration Modelsen
dc.subject.otherUnobserved Heterogeneityen
dc.titleDo Temporary Help Agencies Help? Temporary employment transitions for low-skilled workersen
dc.typeworking paper*
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