The Determinants Of The Transition To Stable Employment In Human Services

Household services sector in France is characterized by involuntary part-time jobs, even in permanent contracts, fixed-term contracts and multi-activity. The situation of these employees does not therefore obey a simple dual structure between permanent contracts (CDI) and short-term contracts. May this explain why, while this sector is a provider of large and growing number of jobs, employers struggle to recruit ? This article is twofold : first, we shed light on the determinants of household services employee's mobility towards either stable employment or to precarity, when initially hired on temporary contracts. Second, we analyze these employees' transitions within the labor market. We estimate a competing risks model on the French Labor Force Survey 2003-2011, which allows detailed information on these employees' transitions.