TEMPORARY JOBS AND JOB SEARCH EFFORT IN EUROPE

Alison Davies and Rhys Powell for their aid in acquiring the European Labour Force Survey regional unemployment rate data. This paper uses European Community Household Panel data (Users Database, waves 1-8, version of December 2003), supplied courtesy of the European Commission, Eurostat. Data are obtainable by application to Eurostat, which has no responsibility for the results and conclusions of this paper. TEMPORARY JOBS AND JOB SEARCH EFFORT IN EUROPE by Lawrence M. Kahn Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eleven countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration an