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 the elasticity of revenue with respect to temporary workers is...

A range of evidence suggests that non-standard jobs, including fixed-term and other temporary jobs such as casual jobs, pay lower wages than more standard, permanent jobs, even after controlling for differences in worker and job characteristics. A recent literature suggests this is also the case...

Befristete Beschäftigungen gehören zu den sogenannten atypischen Beschäftigungen. Aus der Perspektive der zumeist jungen Betroffenen stellen befristete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse eine Belastung dar: Studien zeigen, dass Befristete im Vergleich zu unbefristet Beschäftigten über ein...

This dissertation presents an investigation of temporal work in strategizing and examines how management reconciles future and past. To ensure future value creation, management - via strategizing - engages in the creation and enactment of projections of the future. While this strategizing is...

The increasing numbers of workers in employment with little to no job security, so-called precarious employment, has led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect of instability on health in general, and particularly, mental health. We provide new evidence on...