Temporary employment and wage gap with permanent jobs: evidence from quantile regression

摘要: Previous research on wage penalty for temporary workers has focused the conditional mean model. This paper uses micro data from 2006 wave of Survey Italian Households’ Income and Wealth (SHIW) to examine gap between permanent across whole distribution. I apply a quantile regression models understand whether there are glass ceiling or sticky floor fixed-term test hypothesis polarization profile by contract status. I also exploit counterfactual decomposition analysis investigate is attributed differences in characteristics coefficients effect. A possible source misspecification may arise, endogenous selection status. In order address selectivity bias, adopt an IV specification variant traditional Heckman (1978) dummy variable framework. The main finding effect, sense that wider at bottom earnings distribution particular method shows how effect decreasing upper half profile. The educational level sector confirms effect. Finally correcting self-selection slightly modifies magnitude gap, without changing patterns evidenced standard regression.