Fixed-Term Contracts: Does Nationality Matter?

This paper contrasts foreigners and Spaniards regarding their likelihood of having a fixed-term contract. Data are drawn from the ad hoc module of the 2008 Spanish Labour Force Survey. The analysis is carried out with non-student males who have been in the Spanish labour market for ten years or less. Two probit models are applied. The analyses led us to conclude that the effect of nationality disappears for Eastern Europeans after controlling for human capital, social class, sector of activity and time spent in the Spanish labour market. However, the likelihood of working with a fixed-term contract is still 5 per cent higher for Latin Americans compared to Spaniards, even controlling for these variables. The gap reaches about 20 per cent for Africans. © 2013 © 2013 Taylor & Francis.