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.
- Forschung und Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
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Atypische Beschäftigung insgesamt
- Gesamtbetrachtungen
- Erosion des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses
- Prekäre Beschäftigung
- Politik, Arbeitslosigkeitsbekämpfung
- Arbeits- und Lebenssituation atypisch Beschäftigter
- Betriebliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Rechtliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Gesundheitliche Aspekte atypischer Beschäftigung
- Beschäftigungsformen
- Qualifikationsniveau
- Alter
- geographischer Bezug
- Geschlecht
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Literaturhinweis
The unequal incidence of non-standard employment across occupational groups: an empirical analysis of post-industrial labour markets in Germany and Europe (2011)
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Marx, Paul (2011): The unequal incidence of non-standard employment across occupational groups. An empirical analysis of post-industrial labour markets in Germany and Europe. (IZA discussion paper 5521), Bonn, 23 S.
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"The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard employment? To explore these questions, the paper derives a detailed occupational scheme from the literature, capturing the variety of labour market outcomes within countries. In a second step, the scheme is theoretically linked to the topic of non-standard work. It is argued that different degrees of skill specificity across occupational groups produce diverging incentives for flexible and long-term employment, respectively. This leads to the expectation of (some) service-sector occupations showing stronger tendencies towards non-standard employment than those in the industrial sector. Based on European and German micro data, the categorisation is used to decompose various labour market indicators. The results clearly demonstrate the unequal incidence of non-standard employment along the lines of the suggested categorisation. Moreover, the longitudinal perspective suggests that traditionally functioning occupational groups will be crowded out by more destandardised ones." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment precariousness in Spain: prevalence, social distribution, and population-attributable risk percent of poor mental health (2011)
Vives, Alejandra ; Benach, Joan ; Amable, Marcelo ; Benavides, Fernando G. ; Ferrer, Montserrat; Muntaner, Carles ; Moncada, Salvador ; Vanroelen, Christophe ; Llorens, Clara ;Zitatform
Vives, Alejandra, Christophe Vanroelen, Marcelo Amable, Montserrat Ferrer, Salvador Moncada, Clara Llorens, Carles Muntaner, Fernando G. Benavides & Joan Benach (2011): Employment precariousness in Spain. Prevalence, social distribution, and population-attributable risk percent of poor mental health. In: International Journal of Health Services, Jg. 41, H. 4, S. 625-646. DOI:10.2190/HS.41.4.b
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"As a consequence of labor market flexibilization, nonstandard employment has expanded and standard employment has declined. In many cases, these transformations are best described as an evolution toward precarious employment, which is considered a major determinant of health and health inequalities. Using the Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES), this study aims to determine the prevalence of precarious employment in the waged and salaried workforce in Spain, to describe its distribution across social groups defined by occupational class, gender, age, and immigrant status, and to estimate the proportion of cases of poor mental health potentially attributable to employment precariousness. Data are from the Psychosocial Work Environment Survey conducted in 2004-5 on a representative sample of the Spanish workforce. Findings indicate a high prevalence of employment precariousness, affecting nearly 6.5 million workers, with almost 900,000 of them exposed to high precariousness. These estimates are higher than the proportion of fixed-term employment reported in regular statistical sources but may today be an underestimation, given the current economic crisis. Additionally, a significant proportion of cases of poor mental health are potentially attributable to employment precariousness. Both the proportion of cases of poor mental health attributable to and the prevalence of employment precariousness were highly unequally distributed across the study sample, indicating that this may be a significant contributor to social inequalities in mental health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labor market flexibility and poverty dynamics (2010)
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Serrano-Padial, Ricardo;Zitatform
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina & Ricardo Serrano-Padial (2010): Labor market flexibility and poverty dynamics. In: Labour economics, Jg. 17, H. 4, S. 632-642. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2010.01.004
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"The past two decades have witnessed a rapid growth in flexible work arrangements that, in some instances, could expose workers to a higher poverty risk via limited job stability, few advancement opportunities, and low wages. Nowhere in the world has this increase in flexible work arrangements being more evident than in Spain, where about a third of the wage and salary workforce holds fixed-term contracts. Using Spanish panel data and maximum-likelihood binary models that account for state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity, we examine the poverty implications of past and present temporary employment. Our findings suggest that fixed-term contracts are linked to a greater poverty exposure among women and older men relative to open-ended contracts. Furthermore, this greater poverty exposure can last several years due to feedback effects operating via job instability or via the transition to work statuses characterized by higher poverty hazards. Finally, the adverse impact of temporary employment is linked to the short duration of some contracts, thus signaling the importance of work attachment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The influence of temporary employment on unemployment exits in a competing risks framework (2010)
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Arranz, José M., Carlos García-Serrano & Luis Toharia (2010): The influence of temporary employment on unemployment exits in a competing risks framework. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 67-90. DOI:10.1007/s12122-009-9078-1
Abstract
"Using Spanish longitudinal data from the period 1992-2004, this paper examines labour market transitions of the newly unemployed in order to investigate the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with four destination states: temporary employment, permanent employment, self-employment and inactivity. Special emphasis is placed on the influence of previous job variables. We find that individuals who become unemployed due to the end of a temporary contract are more likely to exit unemployment by finding another temporary job and less likely to exit through permanent jobs, self-employment or inactivity. However, long tenures in temporary jobs enhance the probability of finding a permanent employment. Moreover, the length of the previous job, when it terminates due to a layoff, hinders the probability of moving to employment (either permanent or temporary)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment contracts, psychological contracts, and employee well-being: an international study (2010)
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Guest, David E., Kerstin Isaksson & Hans De Witte (Hrsg.) (2010): Employment contracts, psychological contracts, and employee well-being. An international study. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 327 S.
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"Temporary employment has become a focus of policy debate, theory, and research. The book addresses as its core concern the relationship between temporary employment contracts and employee well-being. It does so within the analytic framework of the psychological contract, and advances theory and knowledge about the psychological contract by exploring it from a variety of perspectives. It also sets the psychological contract within the context of a range of other potential influences on work-related well-being including workload, job insecurity, employability, and organizational support. A key aim of the book is to identify the relative importance of these various potential influences on well-being.
The book covers seven countries; Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK, as well as Israel as a comparator outside Europe. Data were collected from over 5,000 workers in over 200 organizations; and from both permanent and temporary workers as well as from employers.
The book's conclusions are interesting and controversial. The central finding is that contrary to expectations, temporary workers report higher well-being than permanent workers. As expected, a range of factors help to explain variations in work-related well-being and the research highlights the important role of the psychological contract. However, even after taking into account alternative explanations, the significant influence of type of employment contract remains, with temporary workers reporting higher well-being. In addition to this core finding, by exploring several aspects of the psychological contract, and taking into account both employer and employee perspectives, the book sheds new light on the nature and role of the psychological contract. It also raises some challenging policy questions and while acknowledging the potentially precarious nature of temporary jobs, highlights the need to consider the increasingly demanding nature of permanent jobs and their effects on the well-being of employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Not the right job, but a secure one: over-education and temporary employment in France, Italy and Spain (2010)
Ortiz, Luis;Zitatform
Ortiz, Luis (2010): Not the right job, but a secure one: over-education and temporary employment in France, Italy and Spain. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 24, H. 1, S. 47-64. DOI:10.1177/0950017009353657
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"Recent educational expansion in many OECD countries has renewed interest in over-education. The educational system has often been highlighted as the main source of over-education, whereas the role of the labour market has been neglected. Using European Community Household Panel data on three countries with similar systems of education but different levels of temporary employment, the association between job security and over-education is explored here. The results show that in quite segmented labour markets, where a permanent contract is an especially valuable asset, human capital might be traded off for job security. Over-education thus becomes paradoxically likelier among permanent workers than among temporary ones." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Motives for accepting temporary employment: a typology (2009)
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Jong, Jeroen de, Nele de Cuyper, Hans de Witte, Inmaculada Silla & Claudia Bernhard-Oettel (2009): Motives for accepting temporary employment. A typology. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 30, H. 3, S. 237-252. DOI:10.1108/01437720910956745
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"This paper aims to offer a typology of temporary workers, based on their motives for accepting their work arrangement, which includes voluntary, involuntary and stepping-stone motives, and relate this typology to various individual and work-related variables. Latent class analysis of 645 European workers was used to construct a typology of temporary workers. Variation of individual and work-related variables between types of temporary workers was analyzed using ANOVA. The analyses suggest that there are three types of workers: involuntary temporary workers highlight the involuntary motive and the stepping-stone motive; the stepping-stone type stresses the stepping-stone motive only, and the non-involuntary group disagrees with all three motives. Moreover, the groups differed significantly on important work-related variables such as occupational position, tenure, employability, and work-involvement. However, differences in individual variables were limited. The research puts forward a more complex typology of temporary workers than is usually suggested. Moreover, the study shows a non-involuntary group for which temporary employment can become a trap, and hence these workers should be targeted by future policy and interventions. The research offers a typology of temporary workers, which is founded on motivation theory, and existing research on motives for accepting temporary employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The segmentation potential of non-standard employment: a four-country comparison of mobility patterns (2009)
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Leschke, Janine (2009): The segmentation potential of non-standard employment. A four-country comparison of mobility patterns. In: U. Blien, E. Jahn & G. Stephan (Hrsg.) (2009): Unemployment and labour market policies - novel approaches, S. 692-715. DOI:10.1108/01437720910997353
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"While forms of non-standard employment (which include part-time work and temporary employment) have received active promotion in recent years, possible negative effects emerging from these forms of employment have not been high on the agenda. This paper, accordingly, aims to compare workers with non-standard contracts and those with standard contracts in relation to transitions out of employment into unemployment, inactivity, household/care activities and education/training. Country differences in outcome are expected due to varying regulations of standard and non-standard employment and different reasons for resorting to forms of non-standard employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Temporary work in coordinated market economies: evidence from front-line service workplaces (2009)
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Shire, Karen A., Annika Schönauer, Mireia Valverde & Hannelore Mottweiler (2009): Temporary work in coordinated market economies. Evidence from front-line service workplaces. In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jg. 62, H. 4, S. 602-617.
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"The growing use of temporary contracts in Europe raises the question of whether long-term employment relations are eroding in coordinated market economies, where protective regulations are historically strong. This paper, using data from establishment-level surveys conducted in 2003 - 2005, examines the institutional and organizational factors that have shaped the extent of use of temporary contracts in call centers in six European countries: Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden. While differences in regulatory regimes appear to have influenced employer behavior in some cases, the exceptions are striking, as the countries with the most stringent restrictions on temporary workers were among the heaviest users of such workers. By contrast, firm-level strategies that retained work in-house and invested in work force skills and training were consistent predictors of the use of long-term contracts as opposed to temporary ones." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gender and the contours of precarious employment (2009)
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Vosko, Leah F., Martha MacDonald & Iain Campbell (Hrsg.) (2009): Gender and the contours of precarious employment. (Routledge IAFFE Advances in feminist economics), Abingdon: Routledge, 280 S.
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"Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across industrialized countries, as well as at the regional level within federal societies, such as Canada, Germany, the United States, and Australia and in the European Union. This book brings together contributions addressing this issue which include case studies exploring the size, nature, and dynamics of precarious employment in different industrialized countries and chapters examining conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of precarious employment in comparative perspective. The collection aims to yield new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, measuring, and responding, via public policy and other means - such as new forms of union organization and community organizing at multiple scales - to the forces driving labour market insecurity." (text exerp, IAB-Doku)
Content:
Leah F. Vosko, Martha Macdonald, Iain Campbell: Introduction: Gender and the concept of precarious employment (1-25);
Leah F. Vosko, Lisa F. Clark: Canada: Gendered precariousness and social reproduction (26-42);
Francoise Carre; James Heintz: The United States: Different sources of precariousness in a mosaic of employment arrangements (43-59);
Iain Campbell, Gillian Whithouse, Janeen Baxter: Australia: Casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model (60-75);
Heidi Gottfried: Japan: The reproductive bargain and the making of precarious employment (76-91);
Julia S. O'Connor: Ireland: Precarious employment in the context of the European Employment Strategy (92-107);
Jacqueline O'reilly, John Macinnes, Tizana Nazio, Jose M. Roche: The United Kingdom: From flexible employment to vulnerable workers (108-126);
Susanne D. Burri: The Netherlands: Precarious employment in a context of flexicurity (127-142);
Jeanne Fagnani, Marie-Therese Letablier: France: Precariousness, gender and the challenges for labour market policy (143-158);
John Macinnes: Spain: Continuity and change in precarious employment (159-176);
Claudia Weinkopf: Germany: Precarious employment and the rise of mini-jobs (177-193);
Inger Jonsson Anita Nyberg: Sweden: Precarious work and precarious unemployment (194-210);
Martha Macdonald. Spatial dimensions of gendered precariousness: Challenges for comparative analysis (211-225);
Sylvia Fuller: investigating longitudinal dimensions of precarious employment: Conceptual and practical issues (226-239);
Wallace Clement, Sophie Mathieu, Steven Prus Emre Uckardesler: Precarious lives in the new economy: Comparative intersectional analysis (240-255);
Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong: Precarious employment in the health-care sector (256-270) -
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Emploi et précarité des jeunes en Espagne (2008)
Alonso, Luis Enrique; Rodriguez, Carlos Fernandez;Zitatform
Alonso, Luis Enrique & Carlos Fernandez Rodriguez (2008): Emploi et précarité des jeunes en Espagne. In: Travail et emploi H. 115, S. 71-80.
Abstract
"This paper focuses in employment and employment conditions among young people in Spain. We will approach this subject by placing it in the context of the transition from Fordism to PostFordism, which characterizes the Western economies. We start showing the specificity of that transition in the spanish case. Then we will see how in the past three decades has occurred in Spain a deep reform of the labour market regulation that has consisted of introducing flexibility in the business management of employment, and how it has affected mainly the young people. We will approach after the conditions of employment that have suffered the generations of young people who entered into the labour market since the eighties. We will conclude the article showing that the labour juvenile precarization has, among other negative effects, to prolong the stay in the homes of origin and delay the final emancipation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The role of temporary help agency employment on temp-to-perm transitions (2008)
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Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, Miguel Ángel Malo & Fernando Munoz-Bullon (2008): The role of temporary help agency employment on temp-to-perm transitions. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 29, H. 2, S. 138-161. DOI:10.1007/s12122-007-9041-y
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"This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers' posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom we have complete work histories since they are first observed in 1998 until the year 2004. One group consists of workers employed through a temporary help agency (THA) at some point during the 7 year period under examination (treated group). The other group is composed of individuals employed as direct-hire temps at some point between 1998 and the year 2004, but never via a THA (control group). Using propensity score matching methods, we find that agency workers endure a lower likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis following their temporary assignment than their direct-hire counterparts. However, there are relevant differences for some groups of workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Temporary contracts and young women in Spain (2008)
Diaz, M. Angeles; Sanchez, Rosario;Zitatform
Diaz, M. Angeles & Rosario Sanchez (2008): Temporary contracts and young women in Spain. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 40, H. 11, S. 1435-1442. DOI:10.1080/00036840600771387
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"In this article we analyse the determinants of temporary employment through a balanced panel of workers from 1995 to 2000. First, we estimate a panel with 1267 individuals with ages ranging from 16 to 65 years. We obtain that the probability of having a temporary contract increases for people younger than 46 years old. Secondly, we estimate separately the sample of people younger than 46 years old and we obtain that the probability of temporality increases for young people with university level of education. More interestedly, the probability of being in a temporary contract is smaller for young women that for young men in Spain." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen befristeter Verträge in Deutschland und Spanien (2008)
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Gash, Vanessa, Antje Mertens & Laura Romeu Gordo (2008): Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen befristeter Verträge in Deutschland und Spanien. In: K.- S. Rehberg (Hrsg.) (2008): Die Natur der Gesellschaft : Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006, S. 4418-4428.
Abstract
"Wie zahlreiche Studien zeigen, kann der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes sowohl die psychische als auch die physische Gesundheit negativ beeinflussen. Einen zentralen Erklärungsfaktor bildet hierbei die soziale Dynamik der Beschäftigung, die positive Auswirkungen auf das Selbstwertgefühl der Beschäftigten und deren Wohlbefinden haben kann. Allerdings zeichnet sich durch die zunehmende Liberalisierung der Arbeitsmärkte und die Einführung von Befristungsmöglichkeiten seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre ein Wandel im Charakter der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse ab. Die Implikationen dieser Veränderungen scheinen jedoch länderspezifisch zu sein. So wird vermutet, dass die lediglich partielle Deregulierung in 'rigiden' Volkswirtschaften wie Deutschland und Spanien zu Segmentation auf dem Arbeitsmarkt führt. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir für Deutschland und Spanien - also zwei 'rigide' Länder -, ob die mit befristeten Verträgen einhergehende Unsicherheit die positiven gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen von Beschäftigung reduziert." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Unemployment insurance and non-standard employment: four European countries in comparison (2008)
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Leschke, Janine (2008): Unemployment insurance and non-standard employment. Four European countries in comparison. (VS research), Wiesbaden: VS, Verl. für Sozialwissenschaften, 262 S.
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Die Bedeutung atypischer Beschäftigung hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten zugenommen. In dem Buch wird zwei Fragen nachgegangen: Ist das Risiko der Arbeitslosigkeit für Teilzeit- und Leiharbeitnehmer größer als für Beschäftigte in Normalarbeitsverhältnissen? Und inwieweit sind diese benachteiligt hinsichtlich Leistungsanspruch und Leistungshöhe von Arbeitslosenunterstützung? Die Gestaltung des Systems der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Dänemark, Deutschland, Spanien und Großbritannien wird verglichen. Nach einer Diskussion der Entwicklung und des Stellenwertes atypischer Beschäftigung in diesen Ländern werden die relevanten Merkmale des Versicherungssystems untersucht, z. B. Schwellenwerte für Arbeitszeit und Einkommen und Anforderungen bezüglich Mindestbeitragseinzahlung. Die Analyse zeigt, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit, arbeitslos zu werden für atypisch Beschäftigte höher ist, und dass sie bezüglich Anspruch auf Arbeitslosenunterstützung benachteiligt sind. (IAB)
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L'autre coté de la croissance de l'emploi en Espagne: une précarité qui se perpétue (2008)
Miguelez, Fausto; Prieto, Carlos;Zitatform
Miguelez, Fausto & Carlos Prieto (2008): L'autre coté de la croissance de l'emploi en Espagne. Une précarité qui se perpétue. In: Travail et emploi H. 115, S. 45-57.
Abstract
"The important growth of employment in Spain in 1994s was accompanied by a strong precarity. This paper highlights its most important features and gives a definition of precarity in employment as it is understood in spanish scientific circles. It empazises how in Spain during the last decades occured a deep change in social norms of employment. This has showed the way at normalisation of types of temporary employment. Concretly, this normalisation was followed by an important increase in short times contracts as well as poor employment conditions. Finaly, it shows how and why precarity continued though an important growth of employment, the unemployment decrease and public policies to reduce precarity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wage growth implications of fixed-term employment: an analysis by contract duration and job mobility (2007)
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Serrano-Padial, Ricardo;Zitatform
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina & Ricardo Serrano-Padial (2007): Wage growth implications of fixed-term employment. An analysis by contract duration and job mobility. In: Labour economics, Jg. 14, H. 5, S. 829-847. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2006.09.001
Abstract
"Focusing on Spain, where fixed-term workers account for a third of the wage and salary workforce, we examine the wage growth implications of fixed-term employment of varying duration while distinguishing between wage growth occurring on-the-job versus via job mobility. Wage growth among employees with indefinite work contracts largely occurs via job mobility, whereas fixed-term workers gain via job mobility as well as on-the-job. Consequently, job stayers with fixed-term contracts a year ago narrow their wage gap with respect to similar counterparts with indefinite-term contracts. Yet, this effect is solely driven by the 10.5 percentage points higher wage growth experienced by fixed-term workers with 6-months contracts able to keep their jobs beyond their initial contract period. Given the limited number of short-term temporary workers in those circumstances, the overall wage gap between past fixed-term and indefinite-term workers is unlikely to vanish in the near future." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Part-time employment: a comparative analysis of Spain and the Netherlands (2007)
Blazquez Cuesta, Maite; Ramos Martin, Nuria Elena;Zitatform
Blazquez Cuesta, Maite & Nuria Elena Ramos Martin (2007): Part-time employment. A comparative analysis of Spain and the Netherlands. (AIAS working paper 55), Amsterdam, 59 S.
Abstract
"Most industrialized countries have seen part-time employment as a percentage of total employment increase in the last decade. This paper presents the results of a comparative study of part-time employment in Spain and the Netherlands. The project comprised a legal comparative study of the effectiveness of the normative solutions provided by the Dutch and Spanish legal orders regarding the protection of part-time workers and the promotion of part-time employment, with special attention paid to the gender dimension of part-time work in both countries; and an analysis, based on data extracted from the European Community Household Panel (1995-2001), of the determinants of part-time employment in both countries and an examination of the extent to which part-time jobs are used as stepping-stones to full-time positions. We found significant country differences regarding females' decisions to take part-time jobs. We also found that, in general, Dutch females are not less likely than their male counterparts to increase the number of hours they work. However, this applies only to those females who are part of a couple or have children younger than 12 years. In Spain, females are 2.6 times less likely than their male counterparts to switch from a part-time to a full-time job." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health?: a comparison of West-Germany and Spain (2007)
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Gash, Vanessa, Antje Mertens & Laura Romeu Gordo (2007): Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health? A comparison of West-Germany and Spain. In: European Societies, Jg. 9, H. 3, S. 429-458. DOI:10.1080/14616690701314150
Abstract
Der Beitrag analysiert die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen befristeter Arbeitsverträge für Männer und Frauen in Westdeutschland und Spanien auf der Basis eines repräsentativen Datenpanels. Die Frage lautet, ob der Wandel der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse als Folge einer Liberalisierung der Arbeitsgesetzgebung Veränderungen der positiven gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen, die von einem Arbeitsverhältnis ausgehen (Goldsmith et al. 1996; Jahoda 1982) bewirken. Unter Nutzung von Informationen über Wechsel zwischen Arbeitslosigkeit und Beschäftigungsverhältnis je nach Art des Arbeitsvertrages wird analysiert, ob der Übergang in unterschiedliche Vertragsverhältnisse auch unterschiedliche gesundheitliche Auswirkungen hat. Es zeigt sich, dass für arbeitslose Arbeiter die Arbeitsaufnahme positive gesundheitliche Auswirkungen hat, sich dieser Effekt aber bei Arbeitern, die einen befristeten Job annehmen, verringert. Hinzukommen überraschende Unterschiede nach Geschlecht und Land, wobei Frauen in der Regel weniger über positive gesundheitliche Auswirkungen einer Arbeitsaufnahme berichten. Dieses Ergebnis fand für Westdeutschland seine Erklärung als Folge der Doppelbelastung von bezahlter Arbeit und unbezahlter Betreuungsarbeit im Haushalt. (IAB)
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How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain (2007)
Güella, Maia; Petrongolo, Barbara;Zitatform
Güella, Maia & Barbara Petrongolo (2007): How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain. In: Labour economics, Jg. 14, H. 2, S. 153-183. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2005.09.001
Abstract
"This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of their conversion into permanent ones in Spain, where the share of fixed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with competing risks of terminating into permanent employment versus alternative states, and flexible duration dependence. We find that conversion rates are generally below 10%. Our estimated conversion rates roughly increase with tenure, with a pronounced spike at the legal limit, when there is no legal way to retain the worker on a temporary contract. We argue that estimated differences in conversion rates across categories of workers can stem from differences in worker outside options and thus the power to credibly threat to quit temporary jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe adapting to news risks arising from nonstandard employment? (2007)
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Leschke, Janine (2007): Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe adapting to news risks arising from nonstandard employment? (Universite Libre, Bruxelles, Departement d'Economie Appliquee. Working paper RS 07-05), Brüssel, 48 S.
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"This paper addresses the question to what extent social protection systems in different European countries do succeed in coping with the risks arising from non-standard forms of employment. Focusing on the examples of part-time and temporary employment, the paper will examine exclusionary transitions and the access to unemployment insurance benefits of workers concerned by these forms of employment. The European Community Household Panel Data (ECHP) will be used. The general hypothesis is that the adaptability of unemployment insurance systems varies between welfare regimes. Therefore, four countries will be compared: Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The cost of flexibility at the margin: comparing the wage penalty for fixed-term contracts in Germany and Spain using quantile regression (2007)
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Mertens, Antje, Vanessa Gash & Frances McGinnity (2007): The cost of flexibility at the margin. Comparing the wage penalty for fixed-term contracts in Germany and Spain using quantile regression. In: Labour, Jg. 21, H. 4/5, S. 637-666.
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"Germany and Spain are typically regarded as 'rigid' economies, yet both have had different experiences of fixed-term jobs. Using quantile regression we find that in West Germany the earnings of permanent and fixed-term workers are most similar among high earners and most dissimilar among low earners. In Spain, the wage penalty shows little variation across the distribution of wages. This pattern was also found for different occupational groups, although there are clear differences in the absolute wage penalty across occupations. In conclusion we caution against generalizing findings from Spain to other 'rigid' European labour markets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The part-time wage penalty in European countries: how large is it for men? (2007)
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O'Dorchai, Sile, Robert Plasman & François Rycx (2007): The part-time wage penalty in European countries. How large is it for men? (IZA discussion paper 2591), Bonn, 34 S.
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"Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we take advantage of access to unique harmonised matched employer-employee data (i.e. the 1995 European Structure of Earnings Survey) to investigate the magnitude and sources of the part-time wage penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e. Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 per cent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 per cent in Belgium, to 28 per cent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 per cent in the UK and to 149 per cent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain between 31 per cent of the observed wage gap in the UK and 71 per cent in Denmark. When a larger set of control variables is taken into account (including occupation, industry, firm size, and level of wage bargaining), a much smaller part of the gap remains unexplained by differences in observed characteristics (except in Italy). Overall, results suggest that policy initiatives to promote lifelong learning and training are of great importance to help part-timers catch up. Moreover, except for Italy, they point to a persisting problem of occupational and sectoral segregation between men working part-time and full-time which requires renewed policy attention." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Temporary agency work in the European Union (2007)
Pedersen, Henrik Stener; Mahler, Susan; Hansen, Claus Bo;Zitatform
Pedersen, Henrik Stener, Claus Bo Hansen & Susan Mahler (2007): Temporary agency work in the European Union. Dublin, 18 S.
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"Overall dissatisfaction with their working conditions and job situation among temporary agency workers would seem to indicate the existence of poor working conditions among this group. However, specific health and quality of work indicators paint a more ambiguous picture. They reveal that the main reasons behind this dissatisfaction are the insecurity inherent in this form of employment and the fact that temporary agency work may often be taken up involuntarily.
The purpose of this report is to study the relationship between TAW and the working conditions and health impacts for the workers. It also aims to promote European learning in relation to TAW through presenting national experiences and good practices. The report has been prepared for the European Working Conditions Observatory (EWCO). The information mainly derives from official national surveys as well as from qualitative studies provided by a network of seven European correspondents. These studies were based on a questionnaire prepared by the report coordinator. The seven countries initially engaged in EWCO are: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Results from pan-European sources and, in particular, the European working conditions survey 2000 are included when relevant as a framework for discussion of the national findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Fixed-term employment contracts in an equilibrium search model (2006)
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Alvarez, Fernando & Marcelo Veracierto (2006): Fixed-term employment contracts in an equilibrium search model. (NBER working paper 12791), Cambridge, Mass., 37 S., Anhang. DOI:10.3386/w12791
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"Fixed-term employment contracts have been introduced in number of European countries as a way to provide flexibility to economies with high employment protection levels. We introduce these contracts into the equilibrium search model in Alvarez and Veracierto (1999), a version of the Lucas and Prescott island model, adapted to have undirected search and variable labor force participation. We model a contract of length J as a tax on separations of workers with tenure higher than J. We show a version of the welfare theorems, and characterize the efficient allocations. This requires solving a control problem, whose solution is characterized by two dimensional inaction sets. For J=1 these contracts are equivalent to the case of firing taxes, and for large J they are equivalent to the laissez-faire case. In a calibrated verion of the model, we find that temporary contracts with J equivalent to three years length close about half of the gap between those two extremes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health?: a comparison of West-Germany and Spain (2006)
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Gash, Vanessa, Antje Mertens & Laura Romeu Gordo (2006): Are fixed-term jobs bad for your health? A comparison of West-Germany and Spain. (IAB-Discussion Paper 08/2006), Nürnberg, 36 S.
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Der Beitrag analysiert die gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen befristeter Arbeitsverträge für Männer und Frauen in Westdeutschland und Spanien auf der Basis eines repräsentativen Datenpanels. Die Frage lautet, ob der Wandel der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse als Folge einer Liberalisierung der Arbeitsgesetzgebung Veränderungen der positiven gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen, die von einem Arbeitsverhältnis ausgehen (Goldsmith et al. 1996; Jahoda 1982) bewirken. Unter Nutzung von Informationen über Wechsel zwischen Arbeitslosigkeit und Beschäftigungsverhältnis je nach Art des Arbeitsvertrages wird analysiert, ob der Übergang in unterschiedliche Vertragsverhältnisse auch unterschiedliche gesundheitliche Auswirkungen hat. Es zeigt sich, dass für arbeitslose Arbeiter die Arbeitsaufnahme positive gesundheitliche Auswirkungen hat, sich dieser Effekt aber bei Arbeitern, die einen befristeten Job annehmen, verringert. Hinzukommen überraschende Unterschiede nach Geschlecht und Land, wobei Frauen in der Regel weniger über positive gesundheitliche Auswirkungen einer Arbeitsaufnahme berichten. Dieses Ergebnis fand für Westdeutschland seine Erklärung als Folge der Doppelbelastung von bezahlter Arbeit und unbezahlter Betreuungsarbeit im Haushalt. (IAB)
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The incidence of temporary employment in advanced economies: why is Spain different? (2006)
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Polavieja, Javier G. (2006): The incidence of temporary employment in advanced economies. Why is Spain different? In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 22, H. 1, S. 61-78. DOI:10.1093/esr/jci042
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"This study analyses the determinants of the rate of temporary employment in 15 advanced economies using both macro-level data drawn from the OECD and EUROSTAT databases, as well as micro-level data drawn from the eighth wave of the European Household Panel. Comparative analysis is set out to test different explanations originally formulated for the Spanish case. The evidence suggests that the overall distribution of temporary employment in the analysed countries does not seem to be explicable by the characteristics of national productive structures. This evidence seems at odds with previous interpretations based on segmentation theories. As an alternative explanation, two types of supply-side factors are tested: crowding-out effects and educational gaps in the workforce. Both seem ill suited to explain the distribution of temporary work in the analysed economies. Institutional factors do, however, seem to play an important role. Multivariate analysis shows that the level of institutional protection in standard employment during the 1980s, together with the degree of coordinated centralization of the collective bargaining system, seem to have a significant impact on the distribution of temporary employment in the countries examined. Yet these institutional variables alone still fail to account for the Spanish difference. The Spanish puzzle seems, however, explicable when an interaction between employment protection in standard contracts and unemployment shocks is accounted for. This interaction is expected from a theoretical standpoint and proves consistent with both country-specific and comparative evidence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Regulating new forms of employment: local experiments and social innovation in Europe (2006)
Regalia, Ida; Lope, Andreu; Marginson, Paul; Ballarino, Gabriele ; Mcilroy, Rachel; Duclos, Laurent; Meriaux, Olivier; Gibert, Francesc; Regalia, Ida; Bortolotti, Franco; Scherer, Stefani ; Giaccone, Mariao;Zitatform
Regalia, Ida (Hrsg.) (2006): Regulating new forms of employment. Local experiments and social innovation in Europe. London u.a.: Routledge, 289 S.
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"Using a comparative framework, this new volume focuses on how non-standard employment can be regulated in very different social, political and institutional settings. After surveying these new forms of work and the new demands for labour-market regulation, the authors identify possible solutions among local-level actors and provide a detailed analysis of how firms assess the advantages and disadvantages of flexible forms of employment. The authors provide six detailed case studies to examine the successes and failures of experimental approaches and social innovation in various regions in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Dreaming of a stable job: The transitions of temporary workers in Italy and Spain (2005)
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Hernanz, Virginia, Federica Origo, Manuela Samek & Luis Toharia (2005): Dreaming of a stable job: The transitions of temporary workers in Italy and Spain. (TLM.NET working paper 2005-20), Amsterdam, 24 S.
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"The aim of this paper is to shed further light on transitions made by workers in Italy and Spain from temporary to stable employment. The analysis focuses on a comparison of involuntary temporary workers (i.e., individuals working on a fixed-term basis only, because they could not find permanent employment), with both other temporary workers and the unemployed. Not surprisingly, the rate of involuntary temporary employment is extremely high in both Italy and Spain (in 2002, 41% of Italian and 70% of Spanish temporary workers aged 15-64 were involuntary, compared to the EU average of 34%), despite the different incidence of overall temporary work between the two nations (around 10% of total employment in Italy, 30% in Spain). Institutional similarities between Italy and Spain (i.e., tight labour market regulation, extended family networks with low female participation rates, and important internal regional differences), in addition to their distinct policies towards temporary employment, make them ideal cases for studying the shifts made by workers from temporary to more stable jobs. Empirical analysis of longitudinal micro-data drawn from Italian and Spanish Labour Force surveys, reveals two different models. The Italian unemployed are in fact less likely to find a job than their Spanish counterparts, but they are more likely to get a stable job than a temporary one. Furthermore, temporary employees in Italy have a significant probability of obtaining a stable job and a relatively low probability of falling into unemployment. In sharp contrast, the unemployed in Spain are more likely to find temporary jobs than remain jobless, but once working have few options for upward mobility and seem to get 'stuck', at least in the short term. Econometric estimates demonstrate that temporary workers in both countries are actually more likely to get a stable job than are the unemployed, but no significant differences seem to emerge between involuntary and other temporary employees. Nonetheless, the marginal effect of temporary work experience (holding other factors constant) is much higher in Italy than in Spain (0.26 vs. 0.03). Furthermore, the positive effect of temporary work experience may be slightly higher (at least in the case of Italy) if unobserved heterogeneity is taken into account, suggesting the existence of negative (self-) selection into temporary employment. This may be due to the fact that, holding other observable characteristics constant, some individuals (whose unobserved characteristics make them more likely to get a stable job) prefer to remain unemployed (presumably waiting for a stable job) than to accept a temporary employment position." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Unions and flexible employment in Britain and Spain: a descriptive note (2004)
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Francesconi, Marco & Carlos García-Serrano (2004): Unions and flexible employment in Britain and Spain. A descriptive note. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 43, H. 4, S. 874-882.
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"Spain and Britain are known to have different labor market structures and degrees of employment protection. Despite such differences, they show remarkably similar associations of unionization with temporary employment and nonstandard hours of work. In particular, we find that unionization in both countries is correlated neither with overtime/long hours of work nor temporary employment. In both economies, instead, part-time work is negatively associated with unionization. These cross-national similarities warrant a rethinking of the strategies of enlargement toward flexible forms of work that unions have supposedly adopted in recent years." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Temporary employment, working conditions and expected exits from firms (2004)
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García-Serrano, Carlos (2004): Temporary employment, working conditions and expected exits from firms. In: Labour, Jg. 18, H. 2, S. 293-316.
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"This paper analyses two issues related to working conditions and temporary employment. First, why do temporary workers exhibit lower scores in objective indicators of working life? Second, what is the influence of working conditions on mobility? Using information for Spanish workers, the results indicate that differences in working conditions remain after controlling for individual, job and firm characteristics: in particular, temporary workers with short job tenure seem to occupy jobs with poorer working conditions. Moreover, there is evidence that workers with worse working life are more likely to expect to leave their current firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Managing labour market related risks in Europe: policy implications (2004)
Laparra, Miguel; Vogler-Ludwig, Kurt; Frey, Luigi; Düll, Nicola; Lindley, Robert; Darmon, Isabelle ; Frade, Carlos;Zitatform
Laparra, Miguel (2004): Managing labour market related risks in Europe. Policy implications. Pamplona u.a., 130 S.
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Die Studie wurde im Rahmen des Projekts ESCOPE erstellt, dessen Zielsetzung es ist, zu einem besseren vergleichenden Verständnis und zu einer besseren vergleichenden Bewertung sogenannter 'prekärer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse' als einer der Hauptaspekte sozialer und sozioökonomischer Unsicherheit und Risiken in Europa beizutragen. Leitende Forschungsfragen sind: Was wird unter 'prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen' sowohl seitens der Arbeitsmarktforschung als auch der Politik in fünf untersuchten Ländern (Frankreich, Deutschland, Italien, Spanien, Großbritannien) aber auch auf europäischer und internationaler Ebene verstanden? Welches sind die Hauptmerkmale der Formen prekärer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse und wie wirken sich sektorale Faktoren und nationale Regulierungen aus? Welches Verständnis von 'prekärer Beschäftigung' könnte sowohl aus wissenschaftlicher als auch aus operationaler Hinsicht besser geeignet sein, angemessene Maßnahmen seitens der Politik in Gang zu setzen? Unter dieser Zielsetzung ist der Projektbericht in vier Teile gegliedert: Der erste Teil umfasst eine Bestandsaufnahme der Literatur zu Inhalt und Bedeutung prekärer Beschäftigung, daran schließt ein Überblick über Umfang und Formen derartiger Beschäftigungsverhältnisse an, gefolgt von einer Analyse der Ursachen und Umstände prekärer Beschäftigung in Form von Fallstudien in den fünf Ländern. Abschließend werden die politischen Implikationen der Untersuchungsergebnisse auf europäischer Ebene diskutiert. (IAB)
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The difficulty of reconciling flexibility and security in Spain: the paradigmatic case of part-time work (2004)
Valdés Dal-Ré, Fernando;Zitatform
Valdés Dal-Ré, Fernando (2004): The difficulty of reconciling flexibility and security in Spain: the paradigmatic case of part-time work. In: Transfer, Jg. 10, H. 2, S. 248-262. DOI:10.1177/102425890401000208
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"Zwischen 1984 und 1993 haben sich die Teilzeitbeschäftigungsquoten in Spanien verdreifacht. Die zunehmende Verbreitung von Teilzeitarbeit war Ausdruck der in diesem Zeitraum und darüber hinaus geführten Beschäftigungspolitik die darauf abzielte, ein Höchstmaß an Flexibilität beim Abschluss von Arbeitsverträgen, d.h. sowohl Vollzeit- als auch Teilzeitverträgen, zu gewähren. Teilzeitarbeit war und ist in gewissem Maße auch heute noch mit einer hohen Beschäftigungsunsicherheit verbunden. Der Beitrag untersucht die aufeinander folgenden und zum Teil widersprüchlichen Maßnahmen, die seit 1994 von den Sozialpartnern und der Regierung ergriffen wurden, um die Qualität und die Sicherheit der Teilzeitarbeit zu erhöhen. Er befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit diese Maßnahmen ihre Ziele erreicht haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Kündigungsschutz, Befristung und Leiharbeit in Europa (2004)
Zachert, Ulrich;Zitatform
Zachert, Ulrich (2004): Kündigungsschutz, Befristung und Leiharbeit in Europa. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 57, H. 3, S. 132-137.
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"Die vergleichende Untersuchung der normativen und tatsächlichen Lage in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern gibt Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass viele gegen die bestehenden Schutzstandards in der nationalen Debatte wiederholt vorgetragenen Argumente entweder unrichtig oder undifferenziert sind. Der Beitrag bietet eine Darstellung der rechtlichen Aspekte des Kündigungsschutzes (z.B. das Verhältnis zwischen Richterrecht und Gesetzesrecht, die Regelung von Schwellenwerten und Abfindungen und Prekaritätsabfindungen, die Möglichkeit der Weiterbeschäftigung und die Präventivfunktion) und ergänzt diese um eine Darstellung der rechtlichen Regelungen zur Befristung und Leiharbeit. Dabei wird untersucht, dass die atypischen Beschäftigungsformen als Ausweichstrategie für zu rigiden Kündigungsschutz genutzt werden können oder aber als Brücke zum Dauerarbeitsvertrag oder Drehtüreffekt dienen. Ein wesentliches Ergebnis des Beitrags ist, dass der Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsmarkt und Regulierungsintensität der Beendigungstatbestände in der (fach-)öffentlichen Diskussion stark überschätzt wird." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Contingent employment in Europe and the United States (2003)
Bergström, Ola ; Paauwe, Jaap; Perez Perez, Manuel; Bergström, Ola ; Peuntner, Thomas; Ellis, Rebecca; Pot, Ferrie; Koene, Bas ; Purcell, John; Storrie, Donald; Storrie, Donald; Glasgow, Doug; Tailby, Stephanie; Cam, Surhan; McGlashan, Kay;Zitatform
Bergström, Ola & Donald Storrie (Hrsg.) (2003): Contingent employment in Europe and the United States. Cheltenham u.a.: Elgar, 256 S.
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"The book examines the developments in labour markets in advanced economies in the 21st century, as regards contingent employment. This is defined as employment relationships that can be terminated with minimal costs within a predetermined period of time. This includes fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work and self-employment. Contingent employment has been the subject of much legislative activity in the last decade, at both the national and European level. Temporary agency work, in particular, has recently been extensively deregulated in most European countries and currently we await the fate of a proposed EU directive on agency work. Using evidence from Germany, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, the authors assess the increasing use of contingent employment against the legislative and institutional background in these countries. The European countries represent a wide range of regulatory regimes within the European Union, and comparison with the United States, where contingent employment is least regulated, is a useful feature of the book. Some emphasis is placed on the role of temporary work agencies. This is not only due to recent spate of legislation but also because agency work is the type of contingent employment that grew most rapidly in the last decade, it is a relatively novel form of employment, and has several interesting theoretical features." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)
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Symposium on temporary work (2002)
Booth, Alison L. ; Dolado, Juan J. ; Storrie, Donald; Frank, Jeff ; Francesconi, Marco ; Holmlund, Bertil; García-Serrano, Carlos ; Landier, Augustin ; Jimeno, Juan F. ; Blanchard, Olivier ;Zitatform
Booth, Alison L., Juan J. Dolado, Jeff Frank, Marco Francesconi, Olivier Blanchard, Augustin Landier, Bertil Holmlund, Donald Storrie, Carlos García-Serrano & Juan F. Jimeno (2002): Symposium on temporary work. In: The economic journal, Jg. 112, H. 480, S. 181-295.
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"This symposium gathers together comparative evidence on the nature and evolution of temporary work in countries with different regulatory frameworks and different labour market conditions. Some of the evidence is microeconomic, providing information on the extent to which temporary jobs are 'good' or 'bad' in terms of worker compensation and career possibilities. Other evidence is macroeconomic, and sheds light both on forces that may explain the rise in temporary work and on the consequences of an increased prevalence of temporaty jobs. The four papers in the symposium examine temporary work in four EU countries: Britain, France, Spain and Sweden. The reason for looking across countries is that the differing institutions in each country - notably the degree of employment protection - allow as to examine different features of temporary work. Overall, the papers in this symposium suggest that the expansion of temporary jobs as a way of increasing labour market flexibility may be undesirable. In the absence of strong employment protection for permanent jobs, as in Britain, temporary jobs are - from worker's perspective - bad jobs, with possible long-term career implications, in particular for men. Even where there is strong EPL for permanent jobs - as in France - the expansion of temporary jobs may be undesirable, leading to high turnover among younger workers. The Swedish study, investigating the causes of the rapid growth in temporary work over the 1990s, suggests that adverse macroeconomic shocks can trigger substantial increases in temporary work. Finally, the Spanish study shows that, once temporary jobs are entrenched in a dual labour market, later reforms to restrict their growth can be unsuccessful, indicating that attempts to reduce firing costs for permanent contracts have so far been insufficient." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Betriebliche Erfahrungen mit atypischen Arbeitsformen: Ergebnisse einer Repräsentativerhebung in acht europäischen Ländern (1993)
Bielenski, Harald;Zitatform
Bielenski, Harald (1993): Betriebliche Erfahrungen mit atypischen Arbeitsformen. Ergebnisse einer Repräsentativerhebung in acht europäischen Ländern. In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Jg. 26, H. 3, S. 375-385.
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Um empirisch fundierte Aussagen zu den Entwicklungspotentialen von vier ausgewählten atypischen Arbeitsformen machen zu können, wurde 1989/90 eine international angelegte Repräsentativbefragung durchgeführt. Befragt wurden Manager und - soweit vorhanden - Arbeitnehmervertreter in 3520 privatwirtschaftlichen Betrieben aus acht europäischen Ländern. Ziel der Untersuchung war es herauszufinden, in welchem Ausmaß atypische Arbeitsformen in den Betrieben angewendet werden und wie Manager und Arbeitnehmervertreter aufgrund ihrer Erfahrungen Teilzeitarbeit, befristete Arbeitsverträge, Samstags- und Abendarbeit bewerten. Der internationale Vergleich zeigt, daß die Verbreitung und Bewertung insbesondere von befristeten Arbeitsverträgen und Teilzeitarbeit stark von den jeweiligen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen abhängt. Dies bedeutet, daß es in relativ breitem Umfang möglich ist, durch politische Maßnahmen - insbesondere durch eine entsprechende Ausgestaltung des Arbeits- und Sozialrechts - die Attraktivität und damit auch die Verbreitung dieser atypischen Arbeitsformen zu fördern oder zu bremsen. Entwicklungschancen werden vor allem bei der Teilzeitarbeit gesehen. Sowohl seitens der Arbeitgeber als auch seitens der Arbeitnehmer besteht ein großes und bei weitem noch nicht ausgeschöpftes Interesse an dieser Arbeitsform. Für beide Seiten kann Teilzeitarbeit große Vorteile mit sich bringen. Die gegenwärtige Praxis ist allerdings durch die Tatsache geprägt, daß zumindest teilweise Arbeitgeberinteressen auf Kosten der Arbeitnehmer durchgesetzt werden. Bei befristeten Arbeitsverträgen sowie bei Samstags- und Abendarbeit decken sich dagegen die Interessen von Arbeitgebern und Arbeitnehmern nur in Ausnahmefällen. Einer stärkeren Verbreitung dieser atypischen Arbeitsformen dürften daher auf Dauer relativ enge Grenzen gesetzt sein. (IAB)
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