Author: Sandrine CazesPublisher:
ISBN: 9789221225119
Category : Manpower policy
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Labour Market Policies in Times of Crisis
Author: Sandrine CazesPublisher:
ISBN: 9789221225119
Category : Manpower policy
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Labour Market Policies in Times of Crisis
Author: Employment and Labour Market Policies in Times of Economic Crisis
Author: Annette MummertWork Sharing during the Great Recession
Author: Jon Carleton MessengerPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1782540881
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
'Work sharing' is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work to the same (or similar) number of workers over a diminished period of working time in order to avoid redundancies. This fascinating and timely study presents the concept and history of work sharing and explores the complexities and trade-offs involved in its use as both a strategy for preserving jobs and a policy for increasing employment. The expert contributors examine the resurgence in the use of work sharing as a job preservation strategy via country case studies of work-sharing programmes implemented across the globe during the Great Recession of 20082009. These studies clearly illustrate that work sharing has been successful as a crisis-response measure in a number of countries. Lessons learned and their implications are presented alongside prescriptions on how to design permanent work-sharing policies that would provide appropriate incentives to generate positive effects for employment and promote a sustainable and job-rich economic recovery. This enlightening book will prove invaluable to academics, researchers, students and policymakers in the fields of labour economics, public sector economics and social policy.
Innovative Social and Labour Market Policies in Europe in Times of Crisis
Author: Labour Market Policies in Times of Crisis
Author: Christine ErhelLabour Market Policies in Times of Crisis
Author: Christine ErhelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This article examines the reaction function of labour market expenditure to unemployment in 24 OECD countries, over the period 1985-2010, using the OECD panel data. The level of public debt is also introduced as a factor that is likely to influence these expenditures. Using a fixed-effect model with interaction terms, this research focuses on two periods of crisis (1992-93 and 2007-09). The results confirm the counter-cyclical variation of labour market policy expenditures. Nevertheless, the sensitivity of labour market expenditure to the economic cycle has in general decreased and the policy mix has changed. This could result from the important labour market reforms undertaken in the last 20 years.
Themed Issue: Innovative Social and Labour Market Policies in Europe in Times of Crisis
Author: Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive Austerity
Author: Sotiria TheodoropoulouPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447335880
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe. Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour market and unemployment policy trends and outputs? Has labour market insecurity increased or decreased and can these changes be associated with the observed changes in labour market policies and macroeconomic conditions? Written by leading experts in the field, the book provides detailed national case studies from across the EU, which span labour market regimes and intensities of fiscal pressures to explore whether, and if so how, retrenchment or expansion have taken place across different types of labour market policies and how these changes have been distributed across the well-protected and the less well-protected labour market populations.
Work Inequalities in the Crisis
Author: Daniel Vaughan-WhiteheadPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 0857937510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
'Who are the losers and the occasional winners in the current economic crisis? How have employers responded to the slump in economic growth? What lessons can be learned both from their and government labour policies? Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, and a team of leading researchers address these questions applying the latest data and research including company case studies from across Europe, including Turkey and the transition economies. They observe some similarities, but also enormous differences. They find novel answers as the policies developed over the past two decades to foster greater flexibility have altered the way firms respond to market changes. Are all these changes socially desirable? The authors are to be congratulated for providing such a detailed panorama and frank assessment which will be of value to both academic and policy readers.' David Marsden, London School of Economics, UK 'Since the successive crises erupted the increase in inequality has not been addressed. This important publication offers a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the workplace. It will help to promote a different policy agenda that is desperately needed to overcome the causes and consequences of the crisis, namely addressing work inequalities.' Philippe Pochet, Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, and General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, Belgium Work Inequalities in the Crisis provides an in-depth overview of the effects of the crisis on inequalities in the world of work. It examines these inequalities multi-dimensionally, looking at employment, wages and incomes, working conditions and social dialogue. At the same time, it investigates whether the crisis may halt the progress made in Europe towards better quality jobs and working conditions. This book offers a unique combination of research, case studies and policy discussions. An assessment of national trends in 30 European countries precedes case studies of 14 of them, in which noted European specialists report on individual enterprises or sectors. The volume's survey of national- and local-level policy solutions contributes to identifying those responses that strengthen economic competitiveness, preserve social cohesion and do not deepen inequalities. This timely resource will be of particular interest to academics, students and researchers in labour economics, to policymakers, and to those involved in European studies more generally.