abstract: 'Occupational heterogeneity in non-standard employment is an important

  and policy-relevant topic of investigation, and one which has not

  received sufficient attention. The main thesis of this article is that

  the function of fixed-term contracts, which in turn affects the

  situation and career prospects of employees, is dependent on occupation.

  Using data from European Survey of Income and Living Conditions,

  2005-2008, I investigate the heterogeneities among fixed-term employees

  in various occupational categories in Poland, by analysing differences

  in (i) the demographic and socio-economic composition of temporary

  workers, (ii) the size of the wage penalty for fixed-term employment,

  and (iii) the chances of transition from fixed-term into open-ended

  employment. The results suggest that in managerial and professional

  occupations temporary contracts are more likely to be used during trial

  periods for newly hired workers and may serve as stepping stones to

  stable jobs, as reflected by the higher rates of mobility into

  open-ended employment. Temporary jobs in low-status service and manual

  occupations appear to result mainly from employers'' attempts to

  facilitate worker dismissal rather than their need to verify the skills

  of new employees, and are more likely to become a dead end for workers.

  However, although fixed-term workers in higher-status occupations seem

  to be better off than their counterparts in services, trade, and manual

  labour, the evidence does not support the claim that the former resemble

  the so-called `boundaryless'' employees, who suffer no negative

  consequences of their fixed-term status.'
affiliation: 'Kiersztyn, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Warsaw, Inst Sociol, PL-00927
  Warsaw, Poland.

  Kiersztyn, Anna, Univ Warsaw, Inst Sociol, PL-00927 Warsaw, Poland.'
author: Kiersztyn, Anna
author-email: chaber@is.uw.edu.pl
author_list:
- family: Kiersztyn
  given: Anna
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/esr/jcw044
eissn: 1468-2672
files: []
issn: 0266-7215
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET FLEXIBILITY; FLEXIBLE EMPLOYMENT; INEQUALITY; CONTRACTS;

  WORKERS; CONSEQUENCES; TRANSITIONS; GERMANY; BRIDGE'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '47'
orcid-numbers: Kiersztyn, Anna/0000-0001-8112-6059
pages: 881-894
papis_id: 0aca68798b2c3a0c76ec5f75919c0232
ref: Kiersztyn2016fixedtermemployment
researcherid-numbers: 'Kiersztyn, Anna/AAH-9353-2020

  '
times-cited: '12'
title: 'Fixed-Term Employment and Occupational Position in Poland: The Heterogeneity
  of Temporary Jobs'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000397304800014
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '11'
volume: '32'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2016'