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In this paper we demonstrate that because of stagnating wages and rising job insecurity, there has been a change in the labor supply regime in the U.S. macroeconomy since the 1970s. There is now greater labor supply at any given officially measured unemployment rate. This induced growth in the...
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An analysis of trends over the past decade in earnings, job growth, employment security and working time experienced by UK employees.
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The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low participation rates (particularly...
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testing empirically whether the claims of the TLM concept with respect to labour market flexibility and work security hold in … level of labour mobility and flexibility (although not much higher than the corporatist or social-democratic regime) with a … have fairly high levels of labour mobility and flexibility. The convergence hypothesis might find some ground in these …
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Since the 90s European discourse tends to present flexibility as the magic tool to raise employment, even if in a … working time arrangements in Belgium as of 1992 from a gender perspective. It appears that new innovative forms of flexibility … have not spread widely in Belgium but that the basic form of time flexibility, i.e. part time work, has developed (and …
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Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The …. Despite the vast numbers of studies addressing this issue, labour market flexibility has been examined predominantly by … concentrating on the arrangements that firms adopt to adjust to market fluctuations. Thus flexibility arrangements are perceived to …
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Do countries matter, especially compared to other aspects that affect the flexibility behaviours of companies? Many … more evident when we are dealing with labour market flexibility options, for this can be developed (in companies or perhaps … model allows us to see how factors that explain the flexibility behaviours of companies show different effects across …
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