Alternative and Part‐Time Employment Arrangements as a Response to Job Loss
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Labor Economics
- Vol. 17 (S4) , S142-S169
- https://doi.org/10.1086/209946
Abstract
I examine the extent to which workers who lose jobs obtain work in alternative employment arrangements, including temporary work and independent contracting, and obtain voluntary or involuntary part‐time work. I find that job losers are significantly more likely than nonlosers to be in both temporary jobs (including on‐call work and contract work) and involuntarily part‐time jobs. I also find evidence that temporary and involuntary part‐time jobs are part of a transitional process subsequent to job loss leading to regular full‐time employment.Keywords
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