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Fixed term contracts and employers' human capital: The role of educational spillovers

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  • Emanuela Ghignoni
  • Giuseppe Croce
  • Andrea Ricci

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This paper analyses the role of the employers' education on the spread of temporary contracts. Taking advantage of a unique firm‐level dataset, we test whether the share of fixed term workforce in a firm is affected by the employer's level of education. Furthermore, we test whether knowledge spillovers arising from the agglomeration of university graduate employers affect the incidence of temporary employment in the firms located in the area. In both cases we find a negative effect. Interestingly, only small firms are influenced by the spillovers. The possible problems of endogeneity of the agglomeration variable are coped with an IV approach. Este documento analiza el papel de la educación de los empleadores en el uso extendido de los contratos temporales. Aprovechando un conjunto único de datos a nivel de empresa, se comprobó si la proporción de la fuerza laboral contratada por un plazo fijo en una empresa se ve afectada por el nivel de educación del empleador. Además, se comprobó si los spillovers de conocimiento que surgen de la aglomeración de empleadores con graduación universitaria afectan la incidencia del empleo temporal en las empresas ubicadas en el área. En ambos casos se encontró un efecto negativo. Curiosamente, solo las pequeñas empresas están influenciadas por los spillovers. Los posibles problemas de endogeneidad de la variable de aglomeración se tratan con un enfoque IV. 本稿では蔓延する一時雇用契約に対する雇用主の学歴の役割を分析する。独自の企業レベルのデータセットを利用して、ある企業における有期雇用労働者の割合が、雇用主の学歴レベルに影響されるか否かを検証する。さらに大卒の雇用主の集中から起こる知識スピルオーバーが、その地域に立地する企業の一時雇用契約の発生率に影響を与えるか否かを検証する。いずれの場合も負の効果が認められる。興味深いことに、小規模の企業だけがスピルオーバー効果を受ける。集積の変数の内生性が孕む問題に、操作変数法を用いたアプローチで対処する。

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  • Emanuela Ghignoni & Giuseppe Croce & Andrea Ricci, 2018. "Fixed term contracts and employers' human capital: The role of educational spillovers," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 97(2), pages 301-322, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:97:y:2018:i:2:p:301-322
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12245
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