Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?

Underemployment and aging population are major threats for several European economies. This study asks, whether partial labour market reforms, similar to German Hartz reforms, were good choices for other European countries, especially in terms of the quality of employment. Labour market liberalisati...

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Main Author: Mähönen, Erno
Other Authors: Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Kauppakorkeakoulu, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics, Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos, Taloustieteet, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
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Published: 2015
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description Underemployment and aging population are major threats for several European economies. This study asks, whether partial labour market reforms, similar to German Hartz reforms, were good choices for other European countries, especially in terms of the quality of employment. Labour market liberalisation effects are assessed from macro-perspective on 25 OECD countries with fixed-effects panel data analysis. The effects for full-time, part-time, temporary, and low-wage employment are analysed separately for both genders, and also on young adults. The results find out strongly a gendered nature of labour market deregulation effects, which give support for dual labour market theory. There appears to be a two-way substitution effect caused by labour market deregulation: a shift from male to female employment and from full-time to part-time employment. Young adults seem to gain less from the reforms than older cohorts while gender differences are also lower for the youth. While liberalisation of temporary contracts seems to moderately increase overall employment, there is a risk of increased precarisation. Moreover, the results suggest that wage-setting institutions shape employment structure much more deeply than employment protection legislation.
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title Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?
title_full Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?
title_fullStr Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets? Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?
title_full_unstemmed Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets? Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?
title_short Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment
title_sort labour market reforms institutions and the quality of employment should we all follow german hartz model in reforming labour markets
title_sub should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?
title_txtP Labour market reforms, institutions, and the quality of employment : should we all follow German Hartz model in reforming labour markets?
topic labour market reforms quality of employment Hartz reforms gender differences dualisation theory panel data fixed-effects Yhteiskuntapolitiikka Kansantaloustiede Social Policy Economics 209 2041 työmarkkinat työllisyys sukupuolierot
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