Measuring the Utility Cost of Temporary Employment Contracts Before Adaptation: A Conjoint Analysis Approach

This study attempts to estimate the 'utility cost' of temporary employment contracts purged of the psychological effects of adaptation. A conjoint analysis experiment is used that examines the ex ante contract preferences of a unique sample of low-skilled employees from seven European coun...

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Volume:	77
Main Author:	Konstantinos Pouliakas Ioannis Theodossiou
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Oxford, UK The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines 01.10.2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd WILEY Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	Economica (London) Vol. 77; no. 308; pp. 688 - 709
Data of publication:	20101001
ISSN:	0013-0427 1468-0335
EISSN:	1468-0335
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Temporary labor Economic analysis Utilities costs Business orders Employment Questionnaires Wellbeing Job satisfaction Wages Cognitive psychology Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Measurement Electric utilities Analysis Contracts Labor contracts HAPPINESS
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2010 Web of Science Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS