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Empirical Economics
Published in: Empirical Economics 1/2020

10-01-2019

I found a better job opportunity! Voluntary job mobility of employees and temporary contracts before and after the great recession in France, Italy and Spain

Authors: Chiara Mussida, Luca Zanin

Published in: Empirical Economics | Issue 1/2020

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Abstract

The voluntary mobility of employees who change employers for a better job remains an unexplored area of labour market transitions in many European countries. We analyse whether and how the recent great economic recession has contributed to modifications in such voluntary job mobility when employees have a temporary contract in France, Italy and Spain. We analyse cross-sectional data from the EU-SILC survey for two sub-periods: 2005–2008 and 2009–2015. We find that employees who have invested in human capital, who are young and who work more than 40 h per week are more likely than their counterparts to change employers for a better opportunity given a temporary contract. After the great recession, we observe a curbing of the studied voluntary job mobility that is likely attributable to the difficulty experienced by employees in finding a job that provides more benefits than their current one, with heterogeneous effects across socio-economic and demographic characteristics and the country of residence.
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Footnotes
2
The “placement and related service” programme provides jobseekers with open information services, referrals to opportunities for work, training and other forms of assistance, counselling and case management, financial assistance with the costs of a job search or relocation to accept work, and job brokerage and related services for employers, if spending on these functions can be itemised. Services provided by the main public employment service and other publicly financed bodies are included. For further details, see http://​stats.​oecd.​org/​.
 
3
Data are from the International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook; http://​www.​imf.​org.
 
4
The answers include different unobserved motivations in considering a job to be better than the previous one. As a non-exhaustive list, we can cite a better type of contract, an increase in earning or a better qualification or field-of-study match.
 
5
The net hourly wage is computed based on the employees’ yearly net cash income (Y), the number of months at work (Months) and the number of hours usually worked per week (Hweeks). Considering that on average there are 4.345 weeks in a month, the hourly wage is computed as follows: [(Y/Months)/(\(\hbox {Hweeks} \times 4.345\))]. The hourly wage is deflated using the Consumer Price Index calculated by the International Monetary Fund with 2015 as the base year.
 
6
The geographical areas of residence are classified according to the nomenclature of territorial units for the statistics system (also known as NUTS). Specifically, we refer to the first level of disaggregation, NUTS1, corresponding to the macro-region. For France, North-West: Haute-Normandie, Basse-Normandie, Pays de la Loire, Bretagne; North-East: Ile de France, Champagne-Ardenne, Picardie, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Lorraine, Alsace, Franche-Comté; Centre: Centre, Bourgogne, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin, Rhone-Alpes and Auvergne; South: Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur. For Italy, North-West: Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Liguria, Lombardy; North-East: Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna; Centre: Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio; South: Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia. For Spain, North-West: Galicia, Principado de Asturias, Cantabria; North-East: Pas Vasco, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, La Rioja, Aragón, Cataluna, Comunidad Valenciana; Centre: Comunidad de Madrid, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura; South: Andalucía, Región de Murcia.
 
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We also estimated model (2) using a probit link function for both marginal distributions. The results had the worst AIC and BIC support compared with the results reported in this section. Empirical evidence is available upon request.
 
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Metadata
Title
I found a better job opportunity! Voluntary job mobility of employees and temporary contracts before and after the great recession in France, Italy and Spain
Authors
Chiara Mussida
Luca Zanin
Publication date
10-01-2019
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Empirical Economics / Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0377-7332
Electronic ISSN: 1435-8921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01622-7

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