A small number of A.U.P. staff, typically those who fill in for faculty members on parental leave or sabbatical, are hired under fixed-term, temporary contracts known as C.D.D., or "contrat à durée determinée".
"It's true that French law allows academics to be hired under fixed-term contracts — it's exactly the same rule as for agricultural workers," said Jean-Marc Wasilewski, a Paris-based human rights lawyer.
The wage and employment responses of natives under fixed-term contracts to immigration are the opposite.
Second, the present paper is devoted to provide the wage elasticity to immigration for the natives under fixed-term contracts.
Thus, an immigrant-induced increase in labor supply should reduce the wage of competing native workers under fixed-term contracts.
This result suggests that native workers under fixed-term contracts only respond to negative wage variations at the intensive margin.
The employment reaction of the native population under fixed-term contracts should then depend on their labor supply elasticity.
This asymmetric wage impact indicates that the wages of workers under fixed-term contracts can be manipulated by firms to adjust labor cost.
More specifically, the estimates indicate that immigration lowers the monthly wage of the population of native workers under fixed-term contracts.
However, I do not find evidence of a negative impact of immigration on the employment rate of competing native workers under fixed-term contracts.
