Are Short‐Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long‐Lasting Jobs?

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00668.x

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Are Short‐Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long‐Lasting Jobs?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 74, Issue 5, pp. 646-675, 2012

30 Pages Posted: 12 Sep 2012

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Bart Cockx

Ghent University - Sherppa - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain

Matteo Picchio

Marche Polytechnic University - Department of Economic and Social Science; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; SHERPPA - Ghent University

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Date Written: October 2012

Abstract

This article assesses whether short‐lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long‐lasting jobs (enduring 1 year or more) for Belgian long‐term unemployed school‐leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market trajectories in a multi‐spell duration model that incorporates lagged duration and lagged occurrence dependence. Second, in a simulation we find that (fe)male school‐leavers accepting a short‐lived job are, within 2 years, 13.4 (9.5) percentage points more likely to find a long‐lasting job than in the counterfactual in which they reject short‐lived jobs.

JEL Classification: C15, C41, J62, J64

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Cockx, Bart L. W. and Picchio, Matteo, Are Short‐Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long‐Lasting Jobs? (October 2012). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 74, Issue 5, pp. 646-675, 2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2145133 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00668.x