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The Quality of Temporary Work

In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy

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  • Gianna Barbieri

    (Servizio Statistico MIUR)

  • Paolo Sestito

    (Banca d'Italia)

Abstract

This paper deals with the counting of temporary employment in Italy, the determinants of being a temp and the ‘quality’ of temporary employment with regards to the 2004-2006 period by using Labour Force Survey data. Although limited, this period is also important because of the further steps in ‘flexibilisation’ of the Italian labour market associated with the hotly debated Biagi Law. A temporary status is more frequent among youths, students, and people still in the school-to-work transition period. In the 2004-2006 period, there was a further rise in the incidence of temporary work, which mostly occurred across the board. The temporary status appears positively associated with the search for job alternatives, and this may be a reliable indication of the lower quality of temporary jobs. However, the association between temporary status and the search for alternatives (controlling for a wide array of compositional and contextual effects possibly affecting job search activities), has weakened over time. Neither does it appear that being employed on a temporary contract is negatively associated (again controlling for a host of covariates) with training activities.

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  • Gianna Barbieri & Paolo Sestito, 2012. "The Quality of Temporary Work," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Tindara Addabbo & Giovanni Solinas (ed.), Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy, edition 1, chapter 5, pages 79-103, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:06-05
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    Keywords

    temporary work; quality of work; training.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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