Wage differentials between Permanent and Temporal Contracts: Further Evidence


Autoria(s): De la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara; Felgueroso, Florentino
Data(s)

08/02/2012

08/02/2012

01/02/2002

Resumo

The main objective of this paper is to estimate wage differentials between permanent and temporal workers for different qualification levels and decompose such differentials to see which factors contribute more to explain them. The data we use is the "Encuesta de Estructura Salarial", a survey carried out in 1995 in all countries of the European Union, which contains very detailed information on wages and other characteristics for about 180.000 workers. The empirical results indicate that (a) the wage gap between permanent and temporal workers increases with qualification and it is smaller for females than for males, (b) when decomposing average wage differentials for each qualification level, we observe that the vast majority of such differential is explainedby differences in characteristics, and in particular by differences in tenure and occupation. With respect to differences in returns, our results indicate that the returns to tenure are higher for temporal workres relative to permanent workers for both males and females and for every qualification level. Returns to occupation are higher for permanent than for temporal workers, and the differenceis particularly high for females.

Identificador

1988-088X

http://hdl.handle.net/10810/6795

RePEc:ehu:dfaeii:200207

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II

Relação

DFAEII 2002.07

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Oaxaca decomposition #wage differentials
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper