How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain

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  • dc.contributor.author Güell, Maiaca
  • dc.contributor.author Petrongolo, Barbaraca
  • dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
  • dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:42:49Z
  • dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:42:49Z
  • dc.date.issued 2003-05-01
  • dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:07:39Z
  • dc.description.abstract This paper studies the duration pattern of xed-term contracts and the determinants of their conversion into permanent ones in Spain, where the share of xed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with competing risks of terminating into permanent employment versus alternative states, and exible duration dependence. We nd that conversion rates are generally below 10%. Our estimated conversion rates roughly increase with tenure, with a pronounced spike at the legal limit, when there is no legal way to retain the worker on a temporary contract. We argue that estimated di¤erences in conversion rates across categories of workers can stem from di¤erences in worker outside options and thus the power to credibly threat to quit temporary jobs.
  • dc.format.mimetype application/pdfca
  • dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=682
  • dc.identifier.citation Labour Economics, 14 (2), 153-183, 2007
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/633
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 682
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  • dc.subject.keyword fixed-term contracts
  • dc.subject.keyword duration models
  • dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
  • dc.title How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spainca
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper