published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(2), 149-162
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work,
have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may
also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting data from all four Contingent
and Alternative Employment Arrangement Supplements to the Current Population Survey, we
investigate the initial job-finding strategies pursued by the unemployed. Within the narrow
window offered by the data, we find that unemployed workers who become reemployed are
more likely to find work in AWAs than in regular, open-ended employment. When we
evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are
entering AWAs as pathways out of their initial labor market state.
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