A stop-gap measure that permits firms to hire workers for temporary assignments, on condition that they not be renewed, condemns the least skilled to a demoralizing cycle of short-term jobs and repeated spells of unemployment. These marginal workers are predominantly immigrants and the children and grandchildren of former immigrants, whose social and economic integration is thus blocked, trapping them in increasingly violent suburban ghettoes.
一项允许公司在不续约的条件下招聘临时工人的权宜措施则使技能水平最低的一群人不得不在短期的工作和反复的失业之间徘徊，很容易变得意志消沉。这些边缘化的工人绝大多数都是移民和移民的后代。他们在社会和经济上融入的通道因此而受阻，陷于暴力现象越来越严重的市郊贫民区内不得脱身。