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Atypical Employment and Prospects of the Youth on the Labor Market in a Crisis Context

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  • Hélène Couprie
  • Xavier Joutard

    (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, THEMA)

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We compare the entrance trajectories of two cohorts of young people into the labor market seven years after leaving the French educational system. We focus our analysis on the employment consequences of atypical employment spells, i.e. part time and temporary work contracts using a Markovian model of labor market transitions with fixed effects. We estimate the stepping-stone effect of atypical employment towards the employment norm of full-time open-ended contract on four gender-education segments of the population. We then disentangle the trend from the Great Recession effect using a dif-in-dif approach. This brings new insights about the redistributive impact of an economic crisis accross gender. Unintended positive effects of the crisis on the trajectory of men transiting through temporary employment spells (external flexibility leverage) is brought to light. Women’s chances to reach the employment norm through transitory spells of part-time work (internal flexibility leverage) appear to be affected negatively by the crisis.

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  • Hélène Couprie & Xavier Joutard, 2017. "Atypical Employment and Prospects of the Youth on the Labor Market in a Crisis Context," Thema Working Papers 2017-08, THEMA (Théorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), CY Cergy-Paris University, ESSEC and CNRS.
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    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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