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Automation and flexible labor contracts: Firm-level evidence from Italy
Traverso, Silvio; Vatiero, Massimiliano; Zaninotto, Enrico - 2024
This study examines the association between investments in automation technologies and employment outcomes at the firm … labor contracts introduced by labor market reforms in the 2000s, we identify a positive relationship between automation … as evidence of complementarity between flexible capital, represented by automation technologies, and flexible labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519002
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Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten
Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001541220
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Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten
Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2001
This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445640
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Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten
Franz, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2001
This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297735
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From deregulation to re-regulation : trend reversal in German labour market institutions and its possible implications
Walwei, Ulrich - 2015
From the mid-1980s until 2005 the German labour market was characterised by continuous deregulation. In the period of an improving German labour market, the German governments have since imposed measures to re-regulate the labour market in order to strengthen employees' rights. At the same time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490788
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Flexibility and Stability of Expectations in the Contract of Employment
Collins, Hugh - 2010
The law stabilizes transactional relations by protecting the implicit expectations of the parties to contracts by various techniques including the imposition of mandatory and supplementary rules. The established pattern in the contract of employment of the protection of expectations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760758
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Worker representation and temporary employment in Germany : the deployment and extent of fixed-term contracts and temporary agency work
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Grunau, Philipp; … - 2018
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810125
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Great expectations : law, employment contracts, and labor market performance
MacLeod, William Bentley - 2010
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312928
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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2011
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment protection law, while most economic analysis of the law suggests that less employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132281
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The effects of partial employment protection reforms : evidence from Italy
Daruich, Diego; Di Addario, Sabrina; Saggio, Raffaele - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464967