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1.	Addison, John T. Cotti, Chad D. Surfield, Christopher James
1.	Atypical Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? Evidence from the NLSY79 The Manchester School 83,1 (January 2015): 17-55. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/manc.12052/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Employment; Wage Penalty/Career Penalty; Wages; Work, Atypical Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. An important British paper by Booth et al. (Economic Journal, Vol. 112 (2002), No. 480, pp. F189–F213) was among the first to recognize such jobs also functioned as a stepping stone to permanent work. This conclusion proved prescient, receiving increased support in Europe. Here, we provide a broadly parallel analysis for the USA, where research has been less targeted on this issue. We report similar findings for temporary workers in the USA as found for fixed-term contract workers in Britain.
	Bibliography Citation Addison, John T., Chad D. Cotti and Christopher James Surfield. "Atypical Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? Evidence from the NLSY79." The Manchester School 83,1 (January 2015): 17-55.

2.	Addison, John T. Cotti, Chad D. Surfield, Christopher James
2.	Atypical Work: Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79 IZA Discussion Paper No. 4444, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), October 2009 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Keyword(s): Labor Force Participation; Work, Atypical Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a stepping stone to permanent work. This conclusion proved prescient and has received increasing support in Europe. In the present note, we provide a parallel analysis to Booth et al. for the United States - somewhat of a missing link in the evolving empirical literature -and obtain not dissimilar similar findings for the category of temporary workers as do they for fixed-term contract workers.
	Bibliography Citation Addison, John T., Chad D. Cotti and Christopher James Surfield. "Atypical Work: Who Gets it, and Where Does it Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79." IZA Discussion Paper No. 4444, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), October 2009.

3.	Addison, John T. Surfield, Christopher James
3.	Atypical Work and Employment Continuity Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 48,4 (October 2009): 655-683. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00580.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): Employment; Underemployment; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration; Workers Ability Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Atypical employment arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from the Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement Supplement and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort, we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than regular employment, or the alternative of continued job search, experience greater or lesser employment continuity. Controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, the advantage of regular work over atypical work and atypical work over continued joblessness dissipates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
	Bibliography Citation Addison, John T. and Christopher James Surfield. "Atypical Work and Employment Continuity." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 48,4 (October 2009): 655-683.

4.	Addison, John T. Surfield, Christopher James
4.	Atypical Work and Pay Southern Economic Journal 73,4 (April 2007): 1038-1065. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111941 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Southern Economic Association Keyword(s): Employment, Part-Time; Human Capital; Wage Differentials; Work, Atypical Atypical work has long been criticized in popular debate as providing poorly compensated, precarious employment. Yet the empirical evidence is both incomplete and mixed. The main contribution of the present paper is to estimate wage differences for the full set of these alternative work arrangements while simultaneously controlling for observed demographic characteristics and unobserved person-specific fixed effects. The paper also allows for the skewness in atypical worker earnings while retaining the Mincerian human capital earnings function. Our improved estimates are consistent with some of the more optimistic findings reported in the literature, the caveat being that we are examining here only the wage component of the total compensation package. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Southern Economic Journal is the property of Southern Economic Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts)
	Bibliography Citation Addison, John T. and Christopher James Surfield. "Atypical Work and Pay." Southern Economic Journal 73,4 (April 2007): 1038-1065.

5.	Surfield, Christopher James
5.	The Use and Prevalence of Contingent Work Arrangements in the United States Ph.D. Dissertatiod, Department of Economics, University of South Carolina, 2003. DAI-A 64/07, p. 2603, Jan 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Benefits, Insurance; Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Earnings; Employment, Part-Time; Health Care; Labor Economics; Modeling; Part-Time Work; Wage Effects; Wage Models This dissertation explores the earnings and employment experiences of American workers engaged in contingent work arrangements. Employment as a contract, consulting, or temporary worker has long been criticized as unstable and poorly-compensated when compared with open-ended employment. Using data from the Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement Supplement to the Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), I find little evidence to support these criticisms. The first contribution of this dissertation is to provide a profile of those engaged in contingent work. Next, I examine how current employment status affects the likelihood of being unemployed in the future. These results suggest that contingent workers are able to avoid future unemployment compared to those who are currently jobless. Furthermore, contingent work appears to lengthen spells of employment in the future. The empirical results are consistent with a theoretical model in which contingent arrangements serve as a possible matchmaker between firms and workers. Regressions using cross-sectional data suggest a significant and substantially negative impact of contingent employment status on worker compensation, both in terms of wages and access to employer-related health insurance. However, in the presence of omitted variables likely to appear in compensation models, such as a worker-specific ability component to the error term, this estimate may be biased and inconsistent. Using data from the NLSY79, panel-data techniques are used to control for ability. The results indicate that the usual cross-sectional results provide a substantial overstatement of the negative effect of contingent employment on compensation. In particular, the entire cross-sectional wage effect appears to be a reflection of lower ability levels among contingent workers relative to regular workers.
	Bibliography Citation Surfield, Christopher James. The Use and Prevalence of Contingent Work Arrangements in the United States. Ph.D. Dissertatiod, Department of Economics, University of South Carolina, 2003. DAI-A 64/07, p. 2603, Jan 2004.

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