Using data from the European Community Household Panel on six countries over the period 1995-2001, this article investigates the determinants of workers' participation in training activities and the effects of training on wages. Based on measures of four distinct training types, the authors find that while OLS estimates yield significant wage returns to training for nearly all of the countries, fixed-effects estimations show returns to be not statistically different from zero. This suggests that wage returns to training might be overstated due to failure to take adequate account of the correlation of training with confounding factors that affect wages. he profound technological change that industrialized countries have under-

This paper analyses the relationship between workers’ type of contract and the probability of receiving firm-provided training. In particular, we raise the following question: do workers with temporary contracts face the same probability of receiving training as workers with permanent contracts, once we account for the fact that both types of workers have different probabilities of being employed in a firm providing training? The results from our empirical analysis using data from the Spanish labour market suggest that workers with temporary contracts not only are less likely to be employed in training firms but, once they are in those firms, they also have a lower probability of being chosen to participate in firm-provided training activities. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004Temporary contracts, firm-provided training,

We aim to add empirical evidence to the already studied field of wage differentials between temporary and permanent workers in Spain. Our goal is to find out which determinants of wage differentials are relevant when explaining such differences. Furthermore, the endogeneity of such feature (the type of contract) is controlled for. The same exercise is done with two data sets: the ECHP and the Structure of Earnings Survey. Results show that wage differentials between temporary and permanent workers are explained by the differences in the distribution of personal and job characteristics in both groups, but not by differences in the rewards for those characteristics. These results remain mostly unchanged during the second part of the 1990’s, using information from five waves of the ECHP, and are robust to different changes in the econometric specification. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004Temporary employment, wage differentials, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and switching endogenous model,

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This paper analyses the effect of contract type on the rate of work-related accidents in Italy and Spain, using the 1999 Labour Force Survey 'ad hoc module'. We find that, once personal and job characteristics of workers are controlled for, the differences in the probability of suffering a work accident between open-ended and temporary workers vanish. Furthermore, following a novel decomposition analysis by Yun, we obtain that personal and job characteristics tend to increase the probability of having an accident for temporary workers, but the specific influence of contract type favours the latter, who show a lower probability on this account. Copyright 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation 2006 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd..

; Toharia, Luis (2008) : Mind the gap, please! The effect of temporary help agencies on the consequences of work accidents, ISER Working Paper Series, No. 2008-28, ISER, Colchester This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91997 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Non-technical summaryThe extensive use of temporary work has raised concerns about its economic consequences. One of these dimensions refers to work accidents. Aggregate indicators suggest that some relationship might exist between the use of temporary contracts and the incidence of work accidents. However, the relevant issue is whether within a country temporary workers tend to show higher rates of work accidents than their permanent counterparts (and whether their consequences of are worse). Given the increasing significance of flexible employment and the share of Temporary Help Agencies (THAs) on labour market intermediation in many countries, another feature (which is relevant from a policy perspective) is whether workers employed throughTHAs are more likely to suffer work-related accidents than the rest of workers (and whether their consequences are also worse).This paper investigates the relationship between the types of contract held by workers and some consequences of work accidents. The data we use are the individual files from the 2004 Spanish Statistics on Accidents at Work (Estadística de Accidentes de Trabajo, EAT). This dataset is based on administrative registrations ofwork-related accidents containing all the work accidents occurred during a whole year. We have analysed the influence of the types of contract on the probability of having a serious/fatal accident and on the number of working days lost, after controlling for a set of personal, job and accident characteristics. The results show that workers employed through THAs exhibit a lower probability of suffering a serious/fatal accident and lower duration of absence after a work-related accident, in comparison with workers holding "direct" temporary contracts and workers holding open-ended contracts whose working conditions and personal characteristics are the same. This might be interpreted as an indication that, although the short duration of their assignments may be a potential factor increasing the probability of suffering an accident and the consequences of it, agency temporary workers potentially benefit from specific training (safety and health programmes) provided by THAs in order to avoid work accidents. M...

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