Download or read book Why Deregulate Labour Markets written by Gøsta Esping-Andersen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from economists & political scientists, this text takes a hard look at the empirical connections between unemployment & regulation in Europe today, utilising both in-depth nation analyses & broader international comparisons.
Download or read book Why Deregulate Labour Markets written by Gøsta Esping-Andersen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe's mass unemployment and the call for extensive labour market de-regulation have, perhaps more than any other contemporary issue, impassioned political debate and academic research. With contributions from economists, political scientists and sociologists, Why Deregulate Labour Markets? takes a hard look at the empirical connections between unemployment and regulation in Europe today, utilizing both in-depth nation analyses and broader-based international comparisons. The book demonstrates that Europe's mass unemployment cannot be directly ascribed to excessive worker protection. Labour market rigidities can, however, be harmful for particular groups. The weight of the evidence suggests that a radical strategy of de-regulation would probably cause more harm than benefits for European economic performance.
Download or read book The Impact of Labour Market Deregulation written by C. Gorter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment Protection Deregulation and Labor Shares in Advanced Economies written by Gabriele Ciminelli and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver of the decline in labor shares that took place across most advanced economies since the early 1990s. This paper assesses the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2015, using a newly constructed dataset of major reforms to employment protection legislation for regular contracts. We apply the local projection method to estimate the dynamic response of the labor share to our reform events at both the country and the country-industry levels. For the latter, we employ a differences-in-differences identification strategy using two identifying assumptions grounded in theory—namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by (i) a higher “natural” propensity to adjust the workforce, and (ii) a lower elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. We find a statistically significant, economically large and robust negative effect of deregulation on the labor share. In particular, illustrative back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that job protection deregulation may have contributed about 15 percent to the average labor share decline in advanced economies. Together with existing evidence regarding the macroeconomic gains from job protection and other labor market reforms, our results also point to the need for policymakers to address efficiency-equity trade-offs when designing such reforms.
Download or read book Challenging the Market written by International Working Group on Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades economic and social policy in most of the world has been guided by the notion that economies function best when they are fully exposed to competitive market forces. In labour market policy, this approach is reflected in the widespread emphasis on "flexibility" - a euphemism for the retrenchment of income support and social security, the relaxation of labour market regulations, and the enhanced power of private actors to determine the terms of the employment relationship. These strategies have had marked effects on labour market outcomes, leading to greater vulnerability and polarization - and not always in ways that enhance worker-centred flexibility. The authors offer a more balanced analysis of the functioning and effects of labour market regulation and deregulation. By questioning the underpinnings of the "flexibility" paradigm, and revealing its often damaging impacts (on different countries, sectors, and constituencies), they challenge the conclusion that unregulated market forces produce optimal labour market outcomes. The authors conclude with several suggestions for how labour policy could be reformulated to promote both efficiency and equity.
Download or read book Critical Notes on Labour Market Deregulation written by John Edward King and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing labour markets welfare policies and citizenship written by Goul Andersen, Jørgen and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2002-01-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship readdresses the question of how full citizenship may be preserved and developed in the face of enduring labour market pressures. It: clarifies the relationship between changing labour markets, welfare policies and citizenship; discusses possible ways in which the spill-over effect from labour market marginality to loss of citizenship can be prevented; specifies this problem in relation to the young, older people, men and women and immigrants; offers theoretical and conceptual definitions of citizenship as a new, alternative approach to empirical analyses of labour market marginalisation and its consequences; highlights the lessons to be learned from differing approaches in European countries.
Download or read book Globalized Labour Markets and Social Inequality in Europe written by H. Blossfeld and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life courses in nine different modern societies, and of cross-nationally varying political strategies to mediate this influence.
Download or read book European Labour Markets written by Nick Adnett and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book originates from Nick Adnett's popular, Labour Market Policy, retaining much of its features and coverage, but now concentrating on the emerging European policy issues, such as: Eurosclerosis, social dumping, minimum wage laws and wage inequality and subsidiarity. It discusses fully EU-level policy, including a full examination of social policy and the implications of economic and monetary union. Topical policy issues are highlighted in the text and the book also benefits from improved presentation of statistical data. All text and data has been thoroughly updated.
Download or read book Geographies of Labour Market Inequality written by Ron L. Martin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the key role that place and location play in the operation of the labour market at a time when local context is becoming an integral part of the design and implementation of labour market policies.
Download or read book Work place written by Jamie Peck and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-04-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways. Focusing on the complex social processes that lie at the heart of the labor market, the author offers a provocative new perspective and proposes new ways of conducting research in the area.
Download or read book Regulating the Risk of Unemployment written by Jochen Clasen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulating the Risk of Unemployment offers a systematic comparative analysis of the recent adaptation of European unemployment protection systems to increasingly post-industrial labour markets. These systems were mainly designed and institutionalized in predominantly industrial economies, characterized by relatively standardized employment relationships and stable career patterns, as well as plentiful employment opportunities even for those with low skills. Over the past two to three decades they have faced the challenge of an accelerating shift to a primarily service-based economy, accompanied by demands for greater flexibility in wages and terms and conditions in low-skill segments of the labour market as well as pressures to maximise labour force participation given the more limited potential for productivity-led growth. The book develops an original framework for analysing adaptive reform in unemployment protection along three discrete dimensions of institutional change, which are termed benefit homogenization, risk re-categorization, and activation. This framework is then used to structure analysis of twenty years of unemployment protection reform in twelve European countries. In addition to mapping reforms along these dimensions, the country studies analyse the political and institutional factors that have shaped national patterns of adaptation. Complementary comparative analyses explore the effects of benefit reforms on the operation of the labour market, assess evolving patterns of working-age benefit dependency, and examine the changing role of active labour market policies in the regulation of the risk of unemployment.
Download or read book Flexibility and employment security in Europe written by R. J. A. Muffels and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents carefully selected articles that are at the ultimate forefront of professional studies on 'transitional labour markets' and 'flexicurity'.
Download or read book Working time Changes written by Jacqueline O'Reilly and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of transitional labor markets (TLMs) is an attempt to address and analyze the factors and policies that can prevent high levels of unemployment. Ten contributions from international scholars of economics, sociology, and law draw upon both quantitative longitudinal panel study data and qualitative case study material to explore the implications of TLMs in Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Britain, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Following a section on theoretical and methodological issues are articles that discuss labor market transitions, peripheral, and part time labor. The final section deals with employment contracts and company practices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Deregulation of the Labour Market written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Market Institutions Around the World written by Richard Barry Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies three ways in which institutions affect economic performance: by altering incentives, by facilitating efficient bargaining, and by increasing information, communication, and trust. The evidence shows that labor institutions reduce the dispersion of earnings and income inequality, which alters incentives, but finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the cross-country data on which most studies focus, the paper argues for increased use of micro-data, simulations, and experiments to illuminate how labor institutions operate and affect outcomes.
Download or read book Inflation and Labour Markets written by David E. W. Laidler and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising economic research papers on the relationships between wages inflation and unemployment in the UK, with particular reference to disaggregating down from the national level labour market and to the role of trade unions - covers trade union militancy, wage determination, wage rate determination by collective bargaining, the Phillips curve, unemployment and vacancies, geographic distribution of unemployment, etc. References and statistical tables.
