freelancing and in standard work arrangements in Malaysia view a trade-off between flexibility and income and are willing to forgo … a share of earnings for greater flexibility. We deploy a novel discrete choice experiment in which respondents are asked … to choose their preferred job from two hypothetical job descriptions with randomly assigned attributes viz. flexibility …

We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into … permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development in response to the change in flexibility within … a search and matching model; empirically, we exploit an Italian labour market reform which increased flexibility in a …

in others. One major factor to be incorporated in capturing national variations is the role of internal flexibility, in … particular working time adjustment. This calls for a broader concept of labor market flexibility which takes into account … different channels of adjustment. -- Labor market institutions ; internal flexibility ; employment protection ; economic crisis …

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 …

pay, to shed light on the effects of the resulting greater flexibility in overtime pay setting. We find that half of the … pay flexibility to promote employment, even during a downturn. …

standard vs. non-standard contracts. Whereas internal flexibility via shorter working time was a dominant mode of adjustment … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was … less prominent. -- labor market flexibility ; Germany ; Brazil ; working time ; dismissal protection …

We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility in …, but that fathers' workplaces are more likely than mothers' workplaces to demand temporal flexibility from employees. In … work in female-dominated occupations are less exposed to flexibility demands from employers than their counterparts who …

sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms of working-time flexibility reduce the length of workers' breaks. For …

46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence of very different types of flexibility amongst low and high wage … vacancies. Job flexibility at low wages is more likely to be offered alongside a wage-contract that exposes workers to earnings … risk, while flexibility at higher wages and in more skilled occupations is more likely to be offered alongside a fixed …