Biegert, Thomas and Kuehhirt, Michael (2018). Taking Lemons for a Trial Run: Does Type of Job Exit Affect the Risk of Entering Fixed-Term Employment in Germany? Eur. Sociol. Rev., 34 (2). S. 184 - 198. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1468-2672
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A central argument for the deregulation of employment contracts is that fixed-term contracts boost employment of jobseekers with uncertain productivity by giving employers a tool to screen such applicants over a longer period of time before permanent hire. We test this proposition by comparing the risk of entering fixed-term employment for individually laid-off workers with that for individuals who have left their previous job for other reasons. This strategy is based on the assumption that in the German context individual lay-offs create uncertainty about jobseekers' productivity. We use data on work exits and subsequent labour market re-entry of the prime-age workforce in Germany from waves 2000-2013 of the Socio-Economic Panel. Our results show that the risk of fixed-term employment is substantively smaller after voluntary job exits but reveal only a small and statistically insignificant risk difference between individual lay-offs and workplace closures after adjusting for differences in socio-economic background and characteristics of the previous job. These findings challenge the view that employers use fixed-term contracts as an instrument to screen specific groups of workers whose productivity is highly uncertain, at least with regard to recent career disruptions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-191117 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/esr/jcy003 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Eur. Sociol. Rev. | ||||||||||||
Volume: | 34 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 184 - 198 | ||||||||||||
Date: | 2018 | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | ||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | OXFORD | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1468-2672 | ||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19111 |
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