The cost of flexibility at the margin. Comparing the wage penalty for fixed-term contracts in Germany and Spain using quantile regression

Labour

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 637-666

  Mertens, Antje ^a   Gash, Vanessa ^b   McGinnity, Frances ^c  

^a BERLIN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (Germany)

^b CCSR   (Germany)

^c Inst for Health and Social Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LABOR MARKET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 36349031843     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00396.x     Document Type: Article

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