Fixed-term Contracts and Wages Revisited Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

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This empirical research note uses linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate wage differentials between workers with fixed-term contracts and permanent contracts. The data set allows to analyze wage differentials within firms and across the wage distribution. The main findings are: (1) Worker characteristics account for about half of the unconditional mean wage differential. The wage disadvantage of workers with fixed-term contracts is further reduced by the inclusion of occupations and firm fixed effects to approximately ten percent. (2) The wage disadvantage is larger at the lower tail of the wage distribution and quite constant in the middle and upper parts of the wage distribution.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal for Labour Market Research
Volume45
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)171-183
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.07.2012

    Research areas

  • Economics - Dual internal labor market, Fixed-term contract, linked employer-employee data, Wage differential, wage distribution
  • Gender and Diversity

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