Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
34 Pages Posted: 25 Nov 2008
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Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
Abstract
This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers' effort depends positively on their perception (for given level of effort) about firms' willingness to convert fixed-term contracts into permanent ones. We test this implication using manufacturing firm level data from 1991 to 2005 by means of nonparametric tests of stochastic dominance and parametric multivariate regression approaches. Our main findings are that high conversion rates increase firm's productivity while high shares of temporary contracts decrease it. Both effects are quantitatively relevant.
Keywords: temporary workers, workers' effort, firms' TFP
JEL Classification: C14, C52, D24, J24, J41
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