The impact of atypical employment on individual wellbeing: evidence from a panel of British workers

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“…These data have been used previously in the literature by Bardasi and Francesconi (2004), Taylor et al (2009) and Clark and Georgellis (2013).…”

“…Studies that exploit longitudinal data by employing fixed effects estimators tend to find little or no association between contract type and health (e.g. Bardasi and Francesconi, 2004;Green and Heywood, 2011), which suggests that cross-sectional estimates are upwardly biased.…”

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