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Atypische Beschäftigung

Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt wird zunehmend heterogener. Teilzeitbeschäftigung und Minijobs boomen. Ebenso haben befristete Beschäftigung und Leiharbeit an Bedeutung gewonnen und die Verbreitung von Flächentarifverträgen ist rückläufig. Diese atypischen Erwerbsformen geben Unternehmen mehr Flexibilität.
Was sind die Konsequenzen der zunehmenden Bedeutung atypischer Beschäftigungsformen für Erwerbstätige, Arbeitslose und Betriebe? Welche Bedeutung haben sie für die sozialen Sicherungssysteme, das Beschäftigungsniveau und die Durchlässigkeit des Arbeitsmarktes? Die IAB-Themendossier bietet Informationen zum Forschungsstand.

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    Dependent self-employment across Europe: involuntariness, country's wealth and labor market institutions (2021)

    Hernanz, Virginia ; Carrasco, Raquel ;

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    Hernanz, Virginia & Raquel Carrasco (2021): Dependent self-employment across Europe: involuntariness, country's wealth and labor market institutions. (Working paper. Economics / uc3m, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 2021,2), Madrid, 23 S.

    Abstract

    "This paper investigates the degree of involuntariness in the entrepreneurial activity of the dependent solo self-employed, as well as the effect of the country's wealth and labor market institutions. Using the unique information available in the 2017 European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS) for 25 countries, we can properly identify the dependent solo-self-employed and analyze to what extent they behave in accordance with an occupational choice model when making their self-employment decision. For that, we account for the reasons why they enter into self-employment (voluntarily or involuntarily either out of necessity or requested by the former employer). The results indicate that involuntary self-employment, mostly due to being required by previous employer, significantly increases the probability of being dependent solo versus nondependent self-employed. The wealthiest countries have a lower incidence of this group of workers, mainly if they are involuntary self-employed. Moreover, labor market institutions that decrease the flexibility of paid employment tend to increase the incidence of dependent solo self-employment. These results point to this group of workers being particularly vulnerable with the degree of vulnerability significantly increasing for those self-employed with a lesser degree of occupational choice." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The consequences of non-standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective (2021)

    Möhring, Katja ;

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    Möhring, Katja (2021): The consequences of non-standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe. Contrasting the individual and the household perspective. In: Social Policy and Administration, Jg. 55, H. 3, S. 456-484. DOI:10.1111/spol.12720

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    "The article addresses the question of how individuals with non-standard work or family histories fare under different national pension systems in terms of their individual and household income in old age. It provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship of life course with later life individual and household income, and thereby goes beyond previous research that either focuses on one or the other. Life history data for 12 European countries of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) are used to examine old age individual and household income of individuals (a) with non-standard working histories (e.g., non-standard employment or unemployment), (b) with family instabilities (e.g., divorce or single parenthood). The results show that non-employment and low-status employment are old age income risks for both genders. Having children represents a burden for household income and for women's individual income only if associated with employment interruptions. Cross-national variation is stronger for the relationship of old age income with the employment history than with the fertility history. Especially Beveridge-plus countries that provide unconditional basic pension schemes mitigate previous life course inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions (2021)

    Padrosa, Eva ; Bolíbar, Mireia ; Benach, Joan ; Julià, Mireia ;

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    Padrosa, Eva, Mireia Bolíbar, Mireia Julià & Joan Benach (2021): Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 154, H. 3, S. 893-915. DOI:10.1007/s11205-020-02539-w

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    "Comparing precarious employment (PE) across countries is essential to deepen the understanding of the phenomenon and to learn from country-specific experiences. However, this is hampered by the lack of internationally meaningful measures of PE. We aim to address this point by assessing the measurement invariance (MI) of the Employment Precariousness Scale for Europe (EPRES-E), an adaptation of the EPRES construct in the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). EPRES-E consists of 13 proxy-indicators sorted into six dimensions: temporariness, disempowerment, vulnerability, wages, exercise of rights, unpredictable working times. Drawing on EWCS-2015, MI of the second-order factor model was tested in a sample of 31,340 formal employees by means of (a) multi-group confirmatory factor analyses, and (b) the substantive exploration of EPRES-E mean scores in each country. The results demonstrate that threshold invariance holds for the first-order structure (dimensions) of 22 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK), but only metric invariance is attained by the second-order structure. The latter is supported by the exploration of mean scores, where we found that different score patterns in each dimension lead to similar overall EPRES-E scores, suggesting that PE is configured by different sources within the six dimensions in each country according to their broader socio-political trajectories. We conclude that, although EPRES-E can be used for comparative purposes in 22 European countries, the scores of each dimension must be reported alongside the overall EPRES-E score." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    Kalkulierte Mobilität: Ökonomische und biographische Perspektiven auf Saisonarbeit (2021)

    Schmidt, Judith;

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    Schmidt, Judith (2021): Kalkulierte Mobilität. Ökonomische und biographische Perspektiven auf Saisonarbeit. (Arbeit und Alltag 20), Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 281 S.

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    "Saisonarbeit ist eine bedeutende Variable der meisten volkswirtschaftlichen Kreisläufe westlicher Industrienationen. Die Ausübung temporärer Arbeit ermöglicht unter anderem ein Nahrungssystem, an das sich die beteiligten Staaten längst gewöhnt haben: Wir alle erwarten, jederzeit frisches Obst und Gemüse kaufen zu können. Dieses Angebot stellen vor allem saisonal eingesetzte Arbeitskräfte aus dem Ausland sicher. Wie gestaltet sich die Zusammenarbeit dieser Arbeitskräfte mit den arbeitgebenden Landwirten? In einem Forschungsfeld, das sich zwischen Rumänien und Rheinland-Pfalz erstreckt, beleuchtet Judith Schmidt die ökonomischen Perspektiven und Lebensgeschichten beider Akteursgruppen. Deutlich wird, dass frische Nahrung nur durch ein enges Beziehungsgeflecht von wechselseitigen Abhängigkeiten auf unseren Tischen landet." (Autorenreferat, © 2021 - Campus Verlag)

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    'Dual' labour market? Patterns of segmentation in European labour markets and the varieties of precariousness (2021)

    Seo, Hyojin ;

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    Seo, Hyojin (2021): 'Dual' labour market? Patterns of segmentation in European labour markets and the varieties of precariousness. In: Transfer, Jg. 27, H. 4, S. 485-503. DOI:10.1177/10242589211061070

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    "Der vorliegende Artikel will empirisch untersuchen, in welcher Weise die europäischen Arbeitsmärkte segmentiert sind und wer zu den Outsidern gehört. Der Artikel will das bisher übliche dichotome Modell der Segmentierung des Arbeitsmarktes überwinden, das bisher oft ausschließlich auf der Analyse von Arbeitsbeziehungen beruht. Die vorliegende Studie definiert vielmehr prekäre Verhältnisse auf dem Arbeitsmarkt anhand einer multidimensionalen Betrachtung, die auch Aspekte wie Einkommen, berufliche Perspektiven und subjektive Unsicherheit einbezieht. Mit der Methode der latenten Klassenanalyse werden Daten aus der Europäischen Erhebung über die Arbeitsbedingungen 2015 verwendet, um die traditionelle Definition des Outsider-Status zu erweitern. Es lassen sich vier Arbeitsmarktsegmente definieren: Insider und drei unterschiedliche Typen von Outsidern: typische Outsider, perspektivlose Insider und subjektive Outsider. Betrachtet man hier den länderübergreifenden Aspekt, so lassen sich Unterschiede im Hinblick auf die Segmentierungsmuster und besonders in der Frage finden, wer die Outsider sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Untersuchung verschiedener Aspekte prekärer Arbeitsverhältnisse erforderlich ist, um die Komplexität postindustrieller Arbeitsmärkte erfassen zu können, und dass es unterschiedliche Outsider-Typologien in Europa zu beschreiben gilt, die für den Aufbau einer Gesellschaft mit stärkerem Zusammenhalt geschützt werden sollten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Moral Boundary Drawing of Class: Social Inequality and Young Precarious Workers in Poland and Germany (2021)

    Trappmann, Vera ; Seehaus, Alexandra ; Mrozowicki, Adam ; Krasowska, Agata ;

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    Trappmann, Vera, Alexandra Seehaus, Adam Mrozowicki & Agata Krasowska (2021): The Moral Boundary Drawing of Class: Social Inequality and Young Precarious Workers in Poland and Germany. In: Sociology, Jg. 55, H. 3, S. 451-468. DOI:10.1177/0038038520985791

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    "This article explores the relational and moral aspects of the perception of class structure and class identifications by young people in objectively vulnerable labour market conditions in Poland and Germany. Drawing on 123 biographical interviews with young people in both countries, it demonstrates that young precarious Poles and Germans tend to identify themselves against the ‘middle class’ – understood variously in the two countries – and attribute the sources of economic wealth and social status in their societies to individual merits and entrepreneurship. Positioning oneself in the broad middle and limited identification with the precariat is explained by the youth transition phase, country-specific devaluation of class discourses and the effects of individualisation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Skill structure and labor market integration of immigrants in Europe (2021)

    Westerman, Johan ; Szulkin, Ryszard ; Tåhlin, Michael ;

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    Westerman, Johan, Ryszard Szulkin & Michael Tåhlin (2021): Skill structure and labor market integration of immigrants in Europe. (SocArXiv papers), 39 S. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/a9jqw

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    "Across European countries, immigrants are disadvantaged in labor market attainment relative to natives: foreign-born individuals are less likely to be employed and more likely to be unemployed. Previous research indicates that immigrants’ employment chances are better when the share of low-skill jobs in the labor market is large. Upgrading of the job structure, which has taken place in many countries over recent decades, might therefore have hurt immigrants’ employment prospects. However, an exclusive focus on skill demand neglects another important development in the skill structure of advanced economies: educational expansion. The rapid rise in skill supply has tended to outpace the decline in the low-skill job share with increasing over-education as a consequence, potentially leading to crowding-out of immigrant workers from employment. Based on data from the European Union Labour Force Surveys (EU-LFS) 2004-2016, we perform analyses that jointly consider the demand and supply sides of labor markets. Our results indicate that the size of the low-skill job sector is positively related to immigrants’ employment if and only if those employed in the low-skill sector have low qualifications. In economies with high rates of over-education, where many well-educated natives occupy low-skill jobs, the labor market prospects of immigrants deteriorate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Atypical work and unemployment protection in Europe (2021)

    Xavier Jara, H. ; Tumino, Alberto;

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    Xavier Jara, H. & Alberto Tumino (2021): Atypical work and unemployment protection in Europe. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, Jg. 59, H. 3, S. 535-555. DOI:10.1111/jcms.13099

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    "This paper evaluates the degree of income protection the tax-benefit system provides to atypical workers in the event of unemployment. Our approach relies on simulating transitions from employment to unemployment for the entire workforce in EU member states to compare household financial circumstances before and after the transition. Our results show that coverage rates of unemployment insurance are low among atypical workers, who are also more exposed to the risk of poverty, both while in work and in unemployment. Low work intensity employees are characterized by high net replacement rates. However, this is due to the major role played by market incomes of other household members. Finally, we show that in countries where self-employed workers are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits, extending the eligibility to this group of workers would increase their replacement rates and make them less likely to fall into poverty in the event of unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    More than noise? Explaining instances of minority preference in correspondence studies of recruitment (2020)

    Bonoli, Guiliano; Fossati, Flavia ;

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    Bonoli, Guiliano & Flavia Fossati (2020): More than noise? Explaining instances of minority preference in correspondence studies of recruitment. In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Jg. 46, H. 9, S. 1886-1902. DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2018.1502658

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    "Correspondence studies of labour market discrimination find that minorities, which in general suffer disadvantage, are sometimes preferred in a choice against members of the majority. This outcome has been observed in several studies of ethnic or nationality-based discrimination, but also in studies focusing on other characteristics, such as unemployment and being overweight. However, it is generally not explained and dismissed as noise. In this paper we challenge this understanding, and, using meta-analytical techniques, we show that instances of minority preference are not randomly distributed. We also show that they are more frequent for groups which overall suffer stronger discrimination and for high skilled professionals. We reason that this result may be explained with the fact that groups that suffer discrimination have fewer alternatives in the labour market and this makes them more attractive for jobs of sub-standard quality and for jobs in which turnover costs are high (e.g. high skilled professionals). We conclude by arguing that since tests in which the minority candidate is preferred are not randomly distributed, future research should study the determinants of minority preference in a more systematic manner." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    "Der deutsche Staat gibt vor, dass wir nicht existieren“: Die Arbeits- und Rechtssituation von ukrainischen Care-Migrantinnen in Deutschland (2020)

    Goncharuk, Tetiana;

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    Goncharuk, Tetiana (2020): "Der deutsche Staat gibt vor, dass wir nicht existieren“: Die Arbeits- und Rechtssituation von ukrainischen Care-Migrantinnen in Deutschland. In: Migration und Soziale Arbeit, Jg. 42, H. 3, S. 243-250. DOI:10.3262/MIG2003243

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    "Der Pflegebedarf für ältere Menschen in Deutschland steigt jährlich. Trotzdem gibt es zahlreiche strukturelle Probleme bei der Organisation der häuslichen Altenpflege, die vom Staat ignoriert werden. All dies führt zur Etablierung eines alternativen Versorgungssystems bzw. Arbeitsmarktes mit prekären Arbeitsbedingungen, das Care-Arbeiterinnen aus Osteuropa und insbesondere aus der Ukraine betrifft." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Precarized society: social Transformation of the welfare state (2020)

    Hepp, Rolf; Kergel, David ; Riesinger, Robert;

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    Hepp, Rolf, David Kergel & Robert Riesinger (Hrsg.) (2020): Precarized society. Social Transformation of the welfare state. (Prekarisierung und soziale Entkopplung - transdisziplinäre Studien), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 274 S.

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    "This book provides international and transdisciplinary perspectives on Hyperprecarity and Social Structural Transformations in European Societies, USA and Russia enforced through other special transformation processes such as digitalisation, migration and demographic change. It has been observed that precarity and social insecurity do not refer any longer only to certain groups of the society such as unemployed people or to those ones who are ‘traditionally’ more in need of social benefit etc. but it accompanies and affects greater parts of the society, particularly those sections of the middleclass who conceive their social identity merely via their work ethics. Consequentially new forms of social exclusion are being producing taxing the traditional social cohesion in European societies due to the demand of new forms of flexibility and mobility from the working people. This process can be termed with the notion 'Hyperprecarisation'. This book contains contributions from scientists all over Europe, Russia and the USA, who are members of the SUPI network “Social Uncertainty, Prequarity, Inequality”." (Publisher information, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe: a systematic review and research agenda (2020)

    Hünefeld, Lena ; Hüffmeier, Joachim ; Gerstenberg, Susanne;

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    Hünefeld, Lena, Susanne Gerstenberg & Joachim Hüffmeier (2020): Job satisfaction and mental health of temporary agency workers in Europe. A systematic review and research agenda. In: Work and Stress, Jg. 34, H. 1, S. 82-110. DOI:10.1080/02678373.2019.1567619

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    "The current systematic literature review aimed to analyse the associations between temporary agency work (TAW), job satisfaction, and mental health in Europe, as well as to outline a future research agenda. Twenty-eight scientific articles were identified by searching different data bases (i.e. PSYNDEX, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science) for the time span from January 2000 to December 2016. Our review reveals first that TAW is not consistently negatively related to job satisfaction. However, job insecurity and working conditions are important mediators in the relation of TAW and lowered job satisfaction. Second, TAW is not consistently related to all investigated types of mental health impairments. However, when focusing on specific outcomes and comparing temporary agency workers to permanent employees, we still find consistent evidence regarding higher levels of depression and fatigue among temporary agency workers. Inconsistent associations between TAW, job satisfaction and mental health can partly be attributed to unfavourable methodological aspects of the included primary studies. To address these aspects, future research should consider applying a standard measurement of TAW, including a minimum of meaningful confounding variables, improving the operationalisation of outcome variables and the study design." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Disclosing 'masked employees' in Europe: job control, job demands and job outcomes of 'dependent self-employed workers' (2020)

    Millán, Ana ; Millán, José María ; Caçador-Rodrigues, Leonel;

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    Millán, Ana, José María Millán & Leonel Caçador-Rodrigues (2020): Disclosing 'masked employees' in Europe: job control, job demands and job outcomes of 'dependent self-employed workers'. In: Small business economics, Jg. 55, H. 2, S. 461-474. DOI:10.1007/s11187-019-00245-7

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    "In this study, we examine whether job control, job demands and job outcomes of 'dependent self-employed workers', i.e. the workers in this particular grey zone between employment and self-employment, are more similar to those of the self-employed or paid employed. To this end, we use microdata drawn from the 2010 wave of the European Working Conditions Survey for 34 European countries. First, we develop and validate a psychometrically sound multidimensional scale for these 3 key constructs by conducting both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Then, multilevel (hierarchical) linear regressions are used to test the validity of our hypotheses. Our results suggest that these hybrid work relationships are endowed with the least favourable attributes of both groups: lower job control than self-employed workers, higher job demands than paid employees and, overall, worse job outcomes than both." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    The Effect of Fixed-Term Employment on Well-Being: Disentangling the Micro-Mechanisms and the Moderating Role of Social Cohesion (2020)

    Scheuring, Sonja ;

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    Scheuring, Sonja (2020): The Effect of Fixed-Term Employment on Well-Being: Disentangling the Micro-Mechanisms and the Moderating Role of Social Cohesion. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 152, H. 1, S. 91-115. DOI:10.1007/s11205-020-02421-9

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    "This paper examines the impact of fixed-term employment on well-being from a cross-national comparative perspective by testing (1) the effect heterogeneity across European countries, (2) to which extent Jahoda's Latent Deprivation Model provides a sufficient micro-level explanation for the underlying mechanisms and (3) whether the macro-level factor of social cohesion weakens the micro-level impacts. We investigate the effects in both an upwards (permanent employment) and a downwards (unemployment) comparative control group design. Due to the mediating role of social contacts on the micro-level, we assume social cohesion on the country-level to moderate the main effects: A high degree of societal affiliation should substitute the function of social contacts in the work environment of individuals. Using microdata from the European Social Survey (ESS) 2012 for 23 countries and applying multilevel estimation procedures, we find that there is a remarkable variation in the effects across countries. Even though in each country fixed-term employees have a lower subjective well-being compared to permanent ones, the point estimates vary from .17 to 1.19 units. When comparing fixed-term employees to unemployed individuals, the coefficients even range from − .27 to 1.25 units. More specifically, a negative effect indicates that having a fixed-term contract is worse than unemployment in some countries. Moreover, pooled linear regression models reveal that Jahoda's Latent Deprivation Model explains about three-quarters of the micro-level effect sizes for both directions. Eventually, social cohesion on the country-level diminishes the individual-level well-being differences between fixed-term employees and permanent individuals but not between fixed-term employees and the unemployed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    The dynamism of the new economy: Non-standard employment and access to social security in EU-28 (2019)

    Avlijaš, Sonja;

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    Avlijaš, Sonja (2019): The dynamism of the new economy: Non-standard employment and access to social security in EU-28. (LEQS – LSE 'Europe in Question' Discussion Paper Series 141), London, 76 S.

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    "This paper examines the prevalence of non-standard workers in EU-28, rules for accessing social security, and these workers' risk of not being able to access it. It focuses on temporary and part-time workers, and the self-employed, and offers a particularly detailed analysis of their access to unemployment benefits. It focuses on eligibility, adequacy (net income replacement rates) and identifies those workers which are at the greatest risk of either not receiving benefits or receiving low benefits. It offers a special overview of foreign non-standard workers, who may be particularly vulnerable due to the absence of citizenship in the host country. The paper also analyses access to maternity and sickness benefits for these three groups of workers, as well as their access to pensions. Its key contribution is in bringing together the different dimensions of disadvantage that non-standard workers face vis-à-vis access to social protection. This allows us to comprehensively assess the adaptation of national social security systems across EU-28 to the changing world of work over the past 10 years. The paper shows that there is a lot of variation between the Member States, both in the structure of their social security systems, as well as the prevalence of non-standard work. Most notably, the paper concludes that: i) access to unemployment benefits is the most challenging component of welfare state provision for people in non-standard employment; ii) policy reforms vis-à-vis access to social benefits have improved the status of non-standard workers in several countries, while they have worsened it in others, particularly in Bulgaria, Ireland and Latvia; iii) some Eastern European countries can offer lessons to other Member States due to their experiences with labour market challenges during transition and the subsequent adaptations of their social security systems to greater labour market flexibility. The paper also implies that a country's policy towards nonstandard work" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Dual labour markets revisited (2019)

    Bentolila, Samuel ; Jimeno, Juan F. ; Dolado, Juan J. ;

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    Bentolila, Samuel, Juan J. Dolado & Juan F. Jimeno (2019): Dual labour markets revisited. (CESifo working paper 7479), München, 41 S.

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    "This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative consequences. The topics covered include the stepping-stone or dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training, productivity growth, wages, and labour market inflows and outflows. The paper reviews both theoretical advances and relevant policy discussions, in particular in several countries that had very poor employment performance during the recent global economic and financial crisis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Dualization and subjective employment insecurity : explaining the subjective employment insecurity divide between permanent and temporary workers across 23 European countries (2019)

    Chung, Heejung ;

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    Chung, Heejung (2019): Dualization and subjective employment insecurity : explaining the subjective employment insecurity divide between permanent and temporary workers across 23 European countries. In: Economic and Industrial Democracy, Jg. 40, H. 3, S. 700-729. DOI:10.1177/0143831X16656411

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    "Dualization theory posits that certain institutions cause dualization in the labour market, yet how institutions deepen the subjective insecurity divide between insiders and outsiders has not been examined. This article examines this question using data from 23 European countries in 2008/2009. Results show that the subjective employment insecurity divide between permanent and temporary workers varies significantly across different countries. Corporatist countries, with stronger unions, have larger subjective insecurity divides between permanent and temporary workers. However, this is because permanent workers feel more secure in these countries rather than because temporary workers are more exposed to feelings of insecurity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The structural determinants of the labor share in Europe (2019)

    Dimova, Dilyana;

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    Dimova, Dilyana (2019): The structural determinants of the labor share in Europe. (IMF working paper 2019,67), Washington, DC, 41 S.

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    "The labor share in Europe has been on a downward trend. This paper finds that the decline is concentrated in manufacture and among low- to mid-skilled workers. The shifting nature of employment away from full-time jobs and a rollback of employment protection, unemployment benefits and unemployment benefits have been the main contributors. Technology and globalization hurt sectors where jobs are routinizable but helped others that require specialized skills. High-skilled professionals gained labor share driven by productivity aided by flexible work environments, while low- and mid-skilled workers lost labor share owing to globalization and the erosion of labor market safety nets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Work must pay: Does it? Precarious employment and employment motivation for low-income households (2019)

    Trlifajová, Lucie ; Hurrle, Jakob;

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    Trlifajová, Lucie & Jakob Hurrle (2019): Work must pay: Does it? Precarious employment and employment motivation for low-income households. In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 29, H. 3, S. 376-395. DOI:10.1177/0958928718805870

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    "One of the core dilemmas of current welfare politics is the question of how to ensure social protection while providing incentives to seek employment at the same time. A way to address this dilemma is to base policies and policy models on the principle notion that 'work must pay'; in other words, income from employment should be higher than the social support of the unemployed. However, how accurately do these approaches and models represent the reality of benefit recipients, particularly in the context of increased employment precariousness? In this article, we use the cases of two disadvantaged regions in Czech Republic in order to contrast the presumptions of 'making work pay' policies with the everyday experience of welfare recipients. As we show, their situations are strongly shaped by current changes in the labour market, particularly the precarious character of accessible employment and high levels of indebtedness. The modelling of financial employment incentives and the public policies based on these calculations often do not correspond with the reality of welfare recipients that are often cycling in and out of precarious forms of employment. However, the authors' main claim is that the very idea of the 'work must pay' approach focuses on the wrong question. A truly functioning financial incentive would need to focus not solely on the difference in income between those who work and those who do not work, but rather should analyse what type of arrangements allow working households to rise permanently above the poverty line." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Precarious work (2018)

    Kalleberg, Arne L.; Vallas, Stephen P.;

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    Kalleberg, Arne L. & Stephen P. Vallas (Hrsg.) (2018): Precarious work. (Research in the sociology of work 31), Bingley: Emerald, 466 S.

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    "This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
    In the past quarter century, the nature of paid employment has undergone a dramatic change due to globalization, rapid technological change, the decline of the power of workers in favor of employers, and the spread of neoliberalism. Jobs have become far more insecure and uncertain, with workers bearing the risks of employment as opposed to employers or the government. This trend towards precarious work has engulfed virtually all advanced capitalist nations, but unevenly so, while countries in the Global South continue to experience precarious conditions of work.
    This title examines theories of precarious work; cross-national variations in its features; racial and gender differences in exposure to precarious work; and the policy alternatives that might protect workers from undue risk. The chapters utilize a variety of methods, both quantitative statistical analyses and careful qualitative case studies. This volume will be a valuable resource that constitutes required reading for scholars, activists, labor leaders, and policy makers concerned with the future of work under contemporary capitalism." (Publisher information, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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