TY - JOUR
T1 - Are contingent jobs dead ends or stepping stones to regular jobs? Evidence from a structural estimation
AU - Esteban-Pretel, Julen
AU - Nakajima, Ryo
AU - Tanaka, Ryuichi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Hidehiko Ichimura, Daiji Kawaguchi, Katsuya Takii and the seminar participants at GRIPS, Kansai Labor Workshop, Kyushu University and RIETI for their helpful comments. The financial support of JSPS is acknowledged. All remaining errors are solely our own.
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - The proportion of part-time, dispatch, and temporary workers has increased in many developed economies in recent years. These workers receive lower average wages and benefits, and are subject to lower employment stability. This paper analyzes the effects of initially taking such jobs on the employment careers of young workers. We build an on-and-off-the-job search model, using Japanese data to perform a structural estimation of the model parameters and simulate career paths, in order to study the effects of the initial choice of employment on the probability of having a regular job in the future and on the welfare of the worker. We find that although contingent jobs are neither stepping stones towards regular employment nor dead ends, starting a career in a contingent job has a lasting effect on the welfare of the individual in Japan.
AB - The proportion of part-time, dispatch, and temporary workers has increased in many developed economies in recent years. These workers receive lower average wages and benefits, and are subject to lower employment stability. This paper analyzes the effects of initially taking such jobs on the employment careers of young workers. We build an on-and-off-the-job search model, using Japanese data to perform a structural estimation of the model parameters and simulate career paths, in order to study the effects of the initial choice of employment on the probability of having a regular job in the future and on the welfare of the worker. We find that although contingent jobs are neither stepping stones towards regular employment nor dead ends, starting a career in a contingent job has a lasting effect on the welfare of the individual in Japan.
KW - Contingent employment
KW - Job transition
KW - On-and-off-the-job search
KW - Structural estimation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.12.010
DO - 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.12.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956116540
VL - 18
SP - 513
EP - 526
JO - Labour Economics
JF - Labour Economics
SN - 0927-5371
IS - 4
ER -