@techreport{b3133571d38d49aab7c342e1804ad37a,
title = "Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?",
abstract = "This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market trajectories in a multi-spell duration model that incorporates lagged duration and lagged occurrence dependence. Second, in a simulation we find that (fe)male school-leavers accepting a short-lived job are, within two years, 13.4 (9.5) percentage points more likely to find a long-lasting job than in the counterfactual in which they reject short-lived jobs.",
keywords = "event history model, transition data, state dependence, short-lived jobs, stepping stone effect, long-lasting jobs",
author = "B. Cockx and M. Picchio",
note = "Pagination: 36",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
volume = "2010-95",
series = "CentER Discussion Paper",
publisher = "Microeconomics",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Microeconomics",
}