"It is expensive to purchase, ship, and deliver fuel into a wartime situation, especially when you are limited by short-duration contracting," she said.
A related question is whether short-duration contracts or placements have a noticeable impact on the subsequent employment prospects of the long-term unemployed or whether employers ignore these spells when assessing prospective employees.
These results indicate that the somewhat counterintuitive U-shape pattern of the survival rates in our baseline specification is a reflection of the rotation of relatively low-skilled and inexperienced workers on short-duration contracts of less than a month.
A short-duration temporary contract may be the only viable option after years of unemployment and in some cases such spells may improve the subsequent job-finding rates of the long-term unemployed.
Thus, short-duration temporary contracts seem to act as an informal work-sharing arrangement, allowing a relatively large share of unemployed construction workers to find work and thus avoid entering LTU.
Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts.
This will eliminate most short-duration flights, thus reducing congestion.
The observation potentially explains this type of short-duration GRB.
Those investors may want to consider shifting to short-duration bond funds, Mr. Bair said.
As it stands, few young people get anything more than a short-term contract for their first few jobs, and employers are adept at shuffling employees and contracts to avoid giving anyone under 25 a coveted "undetermined duration" contract, which provides the fullest job protection.
Results show that contract complexity does not differ between similar home and host country relationships; however, consistent with our hypotheses, host country contracts have a shorter duration, more renewal provisions, less flexibility, and relatively greater contracting costs.
