%0 Report
        %A Giuliano, Romina
%A Kampelmann, Stephan
%A Mahy, Benoît
%A Rycx, François
        %T Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10579
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10579
        %X This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved workplace characteristics, endogeneity and state dependence. We apply dynamic panel data estimation techniques to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee data covering all years from 1999 to 2010. Results show that the effects of FTCs on firm competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour-intensive) services, this is not the case in manufacturing and construction.
        %K fixed-term contracts
%K productivity
%K wages
%K profits
%K sectors
%K linked panel data