Fixed-term contracts and wages revisited using linked employer-employee data

摘要: This empirical research note uses linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate wage differentials between workers with fixed-term contracts and permanent contracts. The set allows analyze within firms across distribution. main findings are: (1) Worker characteristics account for about half of unconditional mean differential. disadvantage is further reduced by inclusion occupations firm fixed effects approximately ten percent. (2) larger at lower tail distribution quite constant in middle upper parts