The Policy Preferences of Temporary Workers

Abstract

I begin the empirical part of this book with an analysis of the policy preferences of temporary workers. As elaborated in Chapter 3, an unambiguous expectation is that temporary workers on average exhibit stronger support for redistribution, unemployment protection, and government intervention into the labour market in the form of job creation. I will keep the treatment of these aspects relatively short; first, because they are not theoretically disputed and, second, because there already is some evidence supporting the conjectured link (e.g., Burgoon and Dekker, 2010; Guillaud and Marx, 2014). However, little to no conclusive evidence exists on the question of which workers support tougher regulation of temporary contracts and deregulation of employment protection for regular contracts (Chapter 3).