TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fenoll, Ainoa Aparicio
        TI  - The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
        PY  - 2011/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5669
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5669
        AB  - This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that sector in a given year by more than 30%. The effect is identified by means of exogenous shifts in competition brought about by changes in legislation.
        KW  - product market competition
KW  - fixed-term employment
KW  - labor contract
        ER  -