TY - JOUR AU - Farber,Henry S. TI - Alternative and Part-Time Employment Arrangements as a Response to Job Loss JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 7002 PY - 1999 Y2 - March 1999 DO - 10.3386/w7002 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7002 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7002.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Henry S. Farber Industrial Relations Section Simpson International Building Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-2098 Tel: 609/258-4044 Fax: 609/258-2907 E-Mail: farber@princeton.edu AB - I examine the extent to which workers who lose jobs find work in alternative employment arrangements including temporary work and independent contracting and find part-time work, both voluntary and involuntary. The analysis is based on data from the Displaced Worker Supplements (DWS) and the February 1994 and 1996 Current Population Surveys (CPS) which I match to the Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements Supplements (CAEAS) to the February CPSs in the subsequent years (1995 and 1997 respectively). I find that job losers are significantly more likely than non-losers to be in temporary jobs (including on-call work and contract work). I also find evidence that the likelihood of temporary employment falls with time since job loss. With regard to part-time employment, I find that involuntary part-time employment is an important part of the employment experience subsequent to job loss and that the likelihood of involuntary part-time employment falls with time since job loss, particularly for full-time job losers. Thus that temporary and involuntary part-time jobs are part of a transitional process subsequent to job loss leading to regular full-time employment. ER -