Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: C Green
Author-Name-First: C
Author-Name-Last: Green
Author-Name: J S Heywood
Author-Name-First: J S
Author-Name-Last: Heywood
Title: Are flexible contracts bad for workers? Evidence from job satisfaction data
Abstract: If workers can choose between permanent and flexible contracts, compensating wage differentials should arise to equalize on-the-job utility in the two types of contracts.
Estimating job satisfaction using the British Household Panel Survey shows that agency and casual contracts are associated with routinely lower satisfaction. This results because the low job satisfaction associated with less job security is not offset by higher compensation or other job characteristics. Job security is sufficiently important that holding constant this one facet of satisfaction eliminates the overall gap in job satisfaction between flexible and permanent contracts.
Creation-Date: 2007
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/FlexibleContracts.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 590927
Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: Flexible Contracts, Job Satisfaction, Job Security
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:590927