Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden
比较挪威和瑞典临时工的劳动力市场轨迹，发现挪威以桥梁型轨迹为主，瑞典以死胡同型轨迹更常见，且瑞典的桥梁型轨迹更多集中在中年和高学历群体。
This study compares the labour market trajectories of the temporary employed in Norway with those in Sweden. Sweden’s employment protection legislation gap between the strict protection of permanent employment and the loose regulation of temporary employment has widened in recent decades, while Norway has maintained balanced and strict regulation of both employment types. The study asserts that the two countries differ concerning the distribution of trajectories, leading to permanent employment and trajectories that do not create firmer labour market attachment. Using sequence analysis to analyse two-year panels of the labour force survey for 1997–2011, several different trajectories are discerned in the two countries. The bridge trajectories dominate in Norway, while dead-end trajectories are more common in Sweden. Moreover, the bridge trajectories are selected to stronger categories (mid-aged and higher educated) in Sweden than in Norway. The results are discussed from the perspective of labour market dualisation.