TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kvasnicka, Michael
TI  - Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13843
PY  - 2008
Y2  - March 2008
DO  - 10.3386/w13843
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13843
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13843.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Michael Kvasnicka
University of Magdeburg
E-Mail: michael.kvasnicka@rwi-essen.de
M1  - published as Michael Kvasnicka. "Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?," in David H. Autor, editor, "Studies of Labor Market Intermediation " University of Chicago Press (2009)

M3  - presented at "Labor Market Intermediation Conf.", May 17-18, 2007
AB  - Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances of employment outside temporary help work over a four-year period. Neither, however, do they suffer from future greater risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary help employment for the unemployed, they do neither confirm the existence of adverse effects on the future regular employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access-to-work function for the unemployed.
ER  -