From temporary help jobs to permanent employment
Subtitle: what can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?
By: by Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, Tommaso Nannicini
Contributors: Mealli, Fabrizia
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2149; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2149
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Temporary employment
Description: "The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA assignment decreases the probability of finding a stable job, while results for Europe, based on the Conditional Independence Assumption (CIA), typically reach opposite conclusions. Using data for two Italian regions, we use a matching estimator to show that TWA assignments can be an effective springboard to permanent employment. We also propose a simulation-based sensitivity analysis, which highlights that only for one of these two regions our results are robust to specific failures of the CIA. We conclude that European studies based on the CIA should not be automatically discarded, but should be put under the scrutiny of a sensitivity analysis like the one we propose"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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