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Title: Atypical Work: Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
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1. Addison, John T.
Cotti, Chad D.
Surfield, Christopher James
Atypical Work: Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4444, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), October 2009
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Labor Force Participation; Work, Atypical

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Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a stepping stone to permanent work. This conclusion proved prescient and has received increasing support in Europe. In the present note, we provide a parallel analysis to Booth et al. for the United States - somewhat of a missing link in the evolving empirical literature -and obtain not dissimilar similar findings for the category of temporary workers as do they for fixed-term contract workers.
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Addison, John T., Chad D. Cotti and Christopher James Surfield. "Atypical Work: Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79." IZA Discussion Paper No. 4444, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), October 2009.