A "Two-Tier" Labour Market for Fixed-Term Jobs? Evaluating Evidence from West Germany Using Quantile Regression
Year: 2005
Author: Mertens, Antje, McGinnity, Frances
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 125 (2005), Iss. 1 : pp. 75–85
Abstract
Recent discussion of fixed-term contracts tends to ignore the considerable variation in the quality of these jobs and the wages associated with them (e.g. Booth et al. 2002). In this paper the authors develop the concept of a "two-tier" labour market for fixedterm contracts in Germany and test this concept using quantile regression. U sing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) they find that those with high-wage fixed-term contracts earn only slightly less than permanent counterparts, those with low-wage temporary jobs earn much less, indicating that Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression misses important aspects of the wage structure of fixed-term workers.
Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: Multiple languages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.125.1.75
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 125 (2005), Iss. 1 : pp. 75–85
Published online: 2005-01
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 11
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