TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Giuliano, Romina
AU  - Kampelmann, Stephan
AU  - Mahy, Benoît
AU  - Rycx, François
        TI  - Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors
        PY  - 2017/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10579
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10579
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - fixed-term contracts
KW  - productivity
KW  - wages
KW  - profits
KW  - sectors
KW  - linked panel data
        ER  -