Pauline Givord and Lionel Wilner, "When Does the Stepping Stone Work? 
Fixed-term Contracts versus Temporary Agency Work in Changing Economic 
Conditions," Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 30, No. 5, 2015, pp. 
787-805.

The directory contains the online appendix, gw-supplement.pdf, as well
as two datasets.

The first dataset, gw_lfs.txt, is an extraction from the Enquêtes
Emploi en Continu (EEC), the French Labor Force Survey produced by
INSEE, 2002-2010. It has 2,747,566 observations and 17 variables.

col1: sex
-1 male
-2 female

col2: tpp:
-1 full-time
-2 part-time
-3 not relevant

col3: age, in years 

col4: annee, year of survey from 2002 to 2010

col5: trimestre, quarter

col6: rgi, wave of interrogation, from 1 to 6

col7: dudet, duration of the short-term contract in days

col8: cstotr, socioprofessional group:
-0 not available
-1 farmers
-2 craftsmen, storekeepers and business owners
-3 executives
-4 intermediates
-5 clerks
-6 blue collars
-7 retired
-8 others

col9: dip11, highest diploma:
-10 master or higher
-11 bachelor
-30 some graduate education
-31 two-year technical degree
-33 medical degree
-41 general A-level
-42 technical and professional A-level
-50 vocational training certificate
-60 school certificate 
-70 former school leaving certificate
-71 no diploma

col10: act, ILO definition of activity:
-1 occupied active individual
-2 unemployed 
-3 non-participant

col11: stat, position on the labor market:
-11 self-employed
-12 employers
-13 au pair
-21 temporary agency work
-22 apprentices
-33 fixed-term contracts (private sector)
-34 internships and subsidized jobs (private sector)
-35 open-ended contracts (private sector)
-43 fixed-term contracts (public sector)
-44 internships and subsidized jobs (public sector)
-45 civil servants

col12: rabs, motive for absenteeism during the reference week, if any:
-1 annual leave
-2 sickleave or lost-time accident
-3 motherhood or fatherhood leave
-4 part-time
-5 unpaid leave
-6 training
-7 lay-off
-8 suspension
-9 strike
-10 off season (seasonal jobs)

col13: empabs:
-1 if sickleave or lost-time accident
-2 otherwise

col14: emphnh, weekly overtime during the reference week

col15: empnbh, weekly working time, during the reference week

col16: emphre, weekly paid overtime during the reference week

col17: indiv_num: anonymous identifier

The second dataset, gw_gdp.txt, is a series of the French GDP growth
available on the INSEE website at the time of the second revision of
this paper. It has 36 observations and 3 variables.

C1: year
C2: quarter
C3: quarterly GDP growth rate

Both datasets are ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in the
file gw-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".

Please address any questions to:

Pauline Givord
pauline.givord [AT] insee.fr
INSEE - DMCSI Department
18 boulevard Adolphe Pinard
75014 Paris
FRANCE