Fixed or open-ended? : labor contracts and productivity in the Colombian manufacturing sector

Francesca Castellani, Giulia Lotti, Nathalie Obando

Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates the effect of labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a lower extent than permanent workers, while also having detrimental effects on TFP dynamics. We show this result is unlikely to be driven by the different skill composition of workers holding temporary contracts.

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Year of publication:	August 2017
Authors:	Castellani, Francesca ; Lotti, Giulia ; Obando, Nathalie
Publisher:	[Washington, DC] : Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Subject:	labor contracts \| temporary workers \| skilled workers \| firms' TFP \| Arbeitsvertrag \| Labour contract \| Arbeitsproduktivität \| Labour productivity \| Produktivität \| Productivity \| Kolumbien \| Colombia \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries \| Befristete Beschäftigung \| Temporary employment \| Fachkräfte \| Skilled labour \| Theorie \| Theory \| Leiharbeit \| Temporary agency work

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 40 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Working paper. - Washington, DC : IDB, ZDB-ID 2576368-4. - Vol. no. IDB-WP-832
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.18235/0000859 [DOI] hdl:10419/173884 [Handle]
Classification:	C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; C52 - Model Evaluation and Testing ; D24 - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity ; J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10011784938