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.
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