¶ Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment?

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¶ BibTeX

@article{kyyra2019does,
  title={Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment?},
  author={Kyyr{\"a}, Tomi and Arranz, Jos{\'e} M and Garc{\'\i}a-Serrano, Carlos},
  journal={Labour Economics},
  volume={56},
  pages={68--83},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

¶ Abstract

We study whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We consider a time period when firms were encouraged to create part-time jobs by cutting employers’ social security contributions. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time work on the exit rate to full-time work using a multivariate duration model. We find that, after a cut in the hiring cost of part-timers, taking up a short part-time job reduced the expected time until next full-time job in the recession years. However, after an additional cut, part-time working has prolonged the expected time without a full-time job.