Temporary Employment: Chance or Risk?

Giesecke, Johannes; Groß, Martin

doi:10.1093/esr/19.2.161

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“…The expectation that a considerable portion of temporary work will lead to permanent work is similar to Giesecke and Groß' (2003) "integration scenario", and to Schmid and Gazier's (2002) "transitional labour market theory" though both of these theories offer predictions for the entire labour market. The integration scenario postulates a win-win situation for both employers and employees on the introduction of temporary contracts, with temporary contracts allowing employers to fluctuate the supply of labour in accordance to demand, as well as lowering costs.…”

Section: Theories Predicting a Bridgementioning

confidence: 73%

“…Type-of-contract segmentation theories (Polavieja 2001(Polavieja , 2003Giesecke and Groß 2003) also predict reduced transitions to permanent contract employment, though they also articulate the segmenting effect that contract type has on market structure. Both theories have their origin in dual labour market (Doeringer and Piore 1985;Piore and Sabel 1984) and segmentation theories (Edwards 1979;Gordon, Edwards and Reich 1982).…”

Section: Theories Predicting a Trapmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Gash¹

2008

European Sociological Review

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Citation: Gash, V. (2008). Bridge or trap? To what extent do temporary workers make more transitions to unemployment than to the standard employment contract. European Sociological Review, 24(5), pp. 651-668. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcn027 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. 1984;Blossfeld and Rohwer 1995). This paper establishes higher rates of transition to permanent employment than to unemployment for most temporary workers, though strong between-country differences are found. Permanent

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Section: Theories Predicting a Bridgementioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Theories Predicting a Trapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridge or Trap? Temporary Workers' Transitions to Unemployment and to the Standard Employment Contract

Gash¹

2008

European Sociological Review

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“…High risks can be determined for low-educated persons without vocational training but also for holders of university degrees (a.o. Giesecke and Groß 2003;Hagen 2004;McGinand early 1990s. The analysis for age and educational groups, respectively, is limited to two or four time periods, meaning that no real trend can be detected.…”

Section: Changes In the Allocation To Temporary Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many recent studies report adverse labour market effects on people with fixed-term contracts, though there is also evidence that in the majority of cases these negative effects level off once employees make the transition to permanent employment (Amuedo-Dorantes 2000; Hagen 2002Hagen , 2004Hagen , 2005Hagen , 2006Booth et al 2002;Giesecke and Groß 2003;Kalleberg 2000;Mertens et al 2007). Given the disadvantages of temporary employment, it is important to understand the processes of allocating individuals to these inferior labour market positions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, while there are some studies on the determinants of temporary jobs in the German labour market (amongst others: Boockmann and Hagen 2006;Buchholz and Kurz 2005;Giesecke 2006;Giesecke and Groß 2003;Groß 1999;Hagen 2002Hagen , 2004McGinnity et al 2005;Mertens and McGinnity 2004;Schömann et al 1998), there is only very limited evidence on how these determinants have changed over time. Moreover, so far there is no study that uses multivariate analyses to investigate systematically whether these allocation patterns have changed over time.…”

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Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung und Ungleichheit: Der Wandel der Risikomuster befristeter Beschäftigung in Westdeutschland

Gebel

Giesecke²

2009

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While previous research on temporary employment has shown that certain labour market groups are more likely than others to enter this kind of employment, there has been scant research on the question concerning to what extent these allocation patterns have changed over time. Against the background of pervasive structural and institutional changes which have affected the West German labour market since the beginning of the 1990s, there are reasons to believe that allocation patterns have changed as well. However, on a theoretical level there are different views regarding the quality of these changes. Whereas some scholars argue that social inequality has been exacerbated along the existing lines of social division, others maintain that risks are becoming less and less socially structured. To evaluate this question empirically, we use data from the German Mikrozensus for the period from 1989 to 2005. The analysis reveals first of all that, on the aggregate level, the overall proportion of temporary employment has increased only slightly during that period; secondly, the results show that especially those individuals belonging to groups that already had a weak labour market position have been allocated increasingly to temporary jobs; thirdly, contrary to the thesis of a de-structuration of social inequality, the findings Labour market flexibility and inequality: the changing risk patterns of temporary employment in West Germany 235 "klassischer" Determinanten befristeter Beschäftigungs-verhältnisse entgegen der These einer Entstrukturierung sozialer Ungleichheit nicht verringert hat.

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