%0 Report
        %A Addison, John T.
%A Cotti, Chad
%A Surfield, Christopher J.
        %T Atypical Work: Who Gets It, and Where Does It Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4444
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4444
        %X Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a stepping stone to permanent work. This conclusion proved prescient and has received increasing support in Europe. In the present note, we provide a parallel analysis to Booth et al. for the United States – somewhat of a missing link in the evolving empirical literature – and obtain not dissimilar similar findings for the category of temporary workers as do they for fixed-term contract workers.
        %K atypical work
%K contracting/consulting work
%K regular open-ended employment
%K earnings development
%K temporary jobs