Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina T.

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“…The authors postulate that, in addition to shirking as a cause, workers gradually learn how to work as little as possible and that, because a worker's ability is not initially observable and is largely gauged by output, workers dedicate a higher level of effort in the earlier months, which declines the longer the worker holds the post. Engellandt and Riphahn (2005) found that workers under temporary contracts dedicate more effort to their work than permanent employees and that the probability of a temporary worker working unpaid overtime is 60 per cent greater than for permanent workers.…”

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The current state of research on the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being

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2022

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Interest in the topic of well-being has burgeoned in recent years as the weaknesses of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as a proxy for well-being have become more apparent. At the same time, the global economy has experienced a productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is recognized as being by far the most important long-term source of sustainable gains in living standards, this development has implications for the future of living standards around the world. These two developments raise a number of issues related to the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being. First, does slower productivity growth constitute a significant threat to the betterment of the well-being of the world’s population, and, if so, by how much? Second, given that many indicators of well-being can have positive effects on productivity, should one aspect of any strategy to revive productivity growth be to focus on policies that improve well-being? The objective of this report is to survey the current state of research on the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being.

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Section: ) Impact Of Economic and Job Security On Productivitymentioning

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The current state of research on the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being

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2022

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“…Note that these effects may be dampened if fixed-term contracts are probation periods and workers therefore have incentives not to report absent(Ichino & Riphahn, 2005;Riphahn & Thalmaier, 2001;Engellandt & Riphahn, 2005).…”

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Why Do Temporary Workers Have Higher Disability Insurance Risks Than Permanent Workers?

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2022

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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries

Lisi

2013

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In recent years the availability of new industrylevel data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard crosscountry studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for temporary employment (TE), along with permanent employment (PE), in EU countries. Indeed, the advantage of using industry-level data is manifold. The method exploits both cross-country variation in EPL for PE and TE and variation in the relevance of EPL in different industries deriving from a particular diff-in-diff assumption. Differently from the previous literature we apply this idea of the different binding of EPL only for PE, whereas we implement a different strategy for TE which should imply a more accurate identification of the effect of the use of TE on labour productivity. The theoretical literature has not established a clear prediction on the sign of the effects, existing different convincing reasons for both directions. Thus, the results of the analysis have potentially important policy implications. Our main finding is that the use of temporary contracts has a negative, even if small in magnitude, effect on labour productivity. Furthermore, the analysis confirms that EPL for regular contracts reduce labour productivity growth more in those industries requiring a greater employment reallocation.The author would like to thank Stephen Machin, Roberto Cellini, Sergio Destefanis, two anonymous referees and participants in various conferences and seminars for helpful comments and suggestions. However, the analysis and errors remain responsibility of the author alone.

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

The current state of research on the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being

The current state of research on the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being

Why Do Temporary Workers Have Higher Disability Insurance Risks Than Permanent Workers?

The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries

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