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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Abstract

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
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Biegert, ThomasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kuehhirt, MichaelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
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
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT; LABOR-MARKET; STEPPING STONES; WEST-GERMANY; NONSTANDARD EMPLOYMENT; SELECTION BIAS; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK; CONTRACTS; LAYOFFSMultiple languages
SociologyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19111

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