Netherlands - Career paths of temporary workers - January 31, 2019

In a recently publishes research paper multichannel sequence analysis of labour market positions and incomes is applied to create a typology of careers starting with temporary employment in the Netherlands. The most important research conclusion is that making the distinction between traps and stepping stones only does not fully render justice to the large variety in temporary employment trajectories that is observed in the Dutch labour market: although 29.6% of the careers can be classified as stepping stones and 39.7% as traps, about a quarter (24.7%) of the individuals follow a career that does not fit into the original trap and stepping stone scenarios, because they combine high income security with low employment security or vice versa, or because the permanent contract was not the final outcome in the career.

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