"From temporary to permanent jobs: a stepping stone analysis for Emilia Romagna" paper accepted and presented at Ecomod Network ConferenceDate: July 5, 2017 - July 7, 2017, Ljubljana.

This paper evaluates the impact of temporary and fixed term contracts on temporary workers’ posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis in Emilia Romagna. Using administrative data from 2008 to 2015 and two different types of temporary contractual agreements (temporary agency and fixed-term contracts) as treatment, we adopt propensity score techniques to assess which one is more likely to act as a stepping stone towards permanent jobs with respect to a control group. We find no evidence for a stepping stone in the short run, with agency workers, though, performing slightly better than fixed term workers in the medium run, notwithstanding being the natural stepping stone for a permanent job a previous permanent job