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A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain...
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The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
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perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional … permanent and temporary jobs, working time adjustment, wage flexibility and active and passive labour market policies. The paper … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has – at least in some cases – contributed to a …
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For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour … issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among …
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This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm’s use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that...
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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We … higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This …
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substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility …
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The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
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of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility …-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the varying institutional configurations by which flexibility is achieved. In order … to capture different patterns of flexibility, we differentiate between five types of flexibility which can be combined …
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This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and 2008, on the basis of the European Labour...
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