Premium
The Determinants Of Employment Probation Lengths
Author(s) -
SENGLOH ENG
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1994.tb00347.x
Subject(s) - casual , wage , industrial relations , labour economics , wage growth , economics , political science , management , law
Casual observations suggest that employment probation is widely used by employers but virtually no attention has been paid to the topic in the industrial relations or labor economic literature. This paper examines the reasons for the incidence of probation us in the labor market and the dispersion of observed probation lengths. The findings broaden our knowledge of this employment feature and are relevant to topics such as wage growth, employee screening, turnove, and optimal contracts because they reveal whethe theroretical medels often used to study these issues are well‐founded.