March 6 – 8, 2019
Dr. Jonathan Latner, Sophia Fauser and Sonja Scheuring gave three presentations on first results for analyses within the SECCOPA project at the 6th European User Conference on March 6–8, 2019 in Mannheim hosted by the German Microdata Lab and GESIS in cooperation with Eurostat and CESSDA. The presented research focuses on a description of the distribution, the selection into and outcomes of temporary employment.
Dr. Jonathan Latner gave a talk titled, “The Changing Demographic Risk of Temporary Employment: A Comparative Study of European Countries.” The presentation used panel data from the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to examine the changing risk of experiencing a fixed-term contract (FTC) across demographic groups over time. Preliminary results suggest that the risk of experiencing a FTC is constant across time and demographic groups. However, stability hides the fact that the risk of experiencing a single FTC in a 4-year study period is constant, but the risk of experiencing multiple FTC in a 4-year study period is rising.
Sophia Fauser held a presentation on “Career Outcomes of Temporary Employment: Disentangling Functions of Screening, Entry Port and Entrapment”, where she empirically tested the screening, the entry port and the entrapment function of temporary jobs by separating transitions from temporary employment to permanent employment with the same or a new employer and transitions to repeated temporary employment. For the analyses, she used the EU-SILC data for 25 countries and applied parametric multilevel survival models. Preliminary results suggest that the screening function is more likely for high skilled individuals working in high skilled positions.
Sonja Scheuring presented on “The Gendered Selection into Temporary Employment across European Countries: Does the Male Breadwinner Norm Matter?” by testing the assumption of women to select into fixed-term employment more often compared to permanent jobs due to the flexibility those jobs offer. Moreover, because of role theory, she assumes the male breadwinner norm to strengthen the gendered selection. For her analyses, she uses EU Labor Force Survey (LFS) in 2010 and estimates multilevel binary logistic regression models using a two-step estimation procedure. First results indicate that the selection effects vary between the countries and that the male breadwinner norm indeed seems to matter.