%0 Report
        %A Kyyrä, Tomi
%A Arranz, José María
%A García-Serrano, Carlos
        %T Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10770
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10770
        %X This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time work on the exit rate to full-time work using a multivariate duration model. Our findings show that the exit rate to full-time work declines when working part time (lock-in effect) but increases afterwards (stepping-stone effect), implying a trade-off between the two opposite effects. 
The resulting net effect of part-time work on the expected time until full-time work is positive in most cases, leading to longer spells without full-time work. This undesirable effect has increased over time, so that the value of temporary part-time work as a pathway to full-time work for the unemployed has reduced. 
        %K part-time employment
%K work trajectories
%K unemployment duration
%K mixed proportional hazard model