The Wage Penalty of Temporary Work

PhD Seminar
ESE - Workers With Helmets

Using Dutch administrative data, we estimate the wage penalty for in-house fixed-term contract workers compared to in-house open-ended contract workers.

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Date
Wednesday 12 Feb 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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Seminar
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4.08
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We find an hourly wage penalty of 6% for fixed-term workers. We develop a quantitative search and matching model to disentangle potential causes of the gap. 

Specifically, we examine the roles of employment protection legislation, differences in bargaining power by contract type, worker sorting based on wealth, and selection effects related to match quality.

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Anybody who is interested is free to attend this seminar. No registration is needed

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