Firms’ Use of Temporary Employment and Permanent Workers’ Concerns about Job Security: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

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This research note addresses the question of how permanent workers perceive their individual job security if their firm employs temporary workers with fixed-term contracts and temporary agency workers. One the one hand, the core-periphery hypothesis predicts that permanent workers should have fewer concerns about job security if the firm employs temporary workers to deal with demand fluctuations. On the other hand, a counteracting substitution effect might increase concerns about job security. Using linked employer-employee data and estimating regression models at the worker level with establishment fixed effects, evidence supports the core-periphery hypothesis for temporary agency work but not for fixed-term contracts.

Original languageEnglish
Article number205
JournalEconomies
Volume11
Issue number8
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.08.2023

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    Research areas

  • core-periphery hypothesis, fixed-term contracts, job security, linked employer-employee data, temporary agency work
  • Economics

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