TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kyyrä, Tomi
AU  - Arranz, José María
AU  - García-Serrano, Carlos
        TI  - Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain
        PY  - 2017/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10770
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10770
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - part-time employment
KW  - work trajectories
KW  - unemployment duration
KW  - mixed proportional hazard model
        ER  -