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- Deakin, Simon, et al.
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How do labour laws affect unemployment and the labour share of national income? : The experience of six OECD countries, 1970-2010
- 2014
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In: International labour review (Print). - 0020-7780 .- 1564-913X. ; 153:1, s. 1-27
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Using longitudinal data on labour law in France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States over the period 1970-2010, the authors estimate the impact of labour regulation on unemployment and the labour share of national income. Their dynamic panel data analysis distinguishes between the short-run and long-run effects of regulatory change. They find that worker-protective labour laws in general have no consistent relationship to unemployment but are positively correlated with labour's share of national income. Laws specifically relating to working time and employee representation are found to have beneficial effects on both efficiency and distribution thus proxied.
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- Garz, Marcel
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Employment and wages in Germany since the 2004 deregulation of the temporary agency industry
- 2013
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In: International labour review (Print). - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0020-7780 .- 1564-913X. ; 152:2, s. 307-326
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There has been a surge in temporary agency work in Germany since the 2004 deregulation of the temporary agency industry. Using empirical data, the author examines how this reform affected employment and wages. Controlling for compositional and macroeconomic effects, the results suggest that there was no change in overall employment, since temporary agency work replaced regular jobs. The wage gap between regular employees and temps widened after the reform, showing that firms use agency work to reduce labour costs. However, the main reason for the wage gap was the higher incidence of low-wage determinants among temps compared to regular employees.
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- K. Franck, Anja, 1973, et al.
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Missing women? The under-recording and under-reporting of women's work in Malaysia
- 2014
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In: International labour review. - 0020-7780 .- 1564-913X. ; 153:2, s. 209-221
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Common methods to collect data on women’s labour force participation frequently result in under-reporting and under-recording of their work. Based on fieldwork in Malaysia’s Penang state, this article presents some of the difficulties associated with recording women’s informal work. It contributes to theorization on the under-reporting of women’s remunerative activities in official surveys by ar- guing that while women’s work is often devalued, under-reporting may also be the result of women making strategic and pragmatic choices. By reporting themselves as “housewives”, for example, they may avoid questioning their society’s gendered norms while securing their own interests in work outside the home.
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- Ohlin, Bertil, 1899-1979
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Economic recovery and labour market problems in Sweden : II
- 2013
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In: International labour review (Print). - 0020-7780 .- 1564-913X. ; 152, s. 19-35
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 1935, the world's wealthiest countries were experiencing the worst of the economic crisis, victims of deflation and mass unemployment. Yet in Sweden, the recession had been less serious, and the recovery faster. Why? This question aroused considerable interest at the time. In the article reproduced here, Bertil Ohlin, who had written reports on the global crisis and on unemployment in Sweden and later received the Nobel Prize for economics.
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- Farm, Ante
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Measuring the Effect of Matching Problems on Unemployment
- 2020
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In: International labour review (Print). - : Wiley. - 0020-7780 .- 1564-913X. ; 159:2, s. 243-258
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper shows how matching problems reduce employment – and hence also raise unemployment – by creating a gap between labour demand and employment. It also shows how this gap can be measured by unfilled jobs (unmet demand) as distinct from job vacancies (recruitment processes) and reports results from a vacancy survey which measures both. In fact, while a shift of the matching function indicating longer recruitment times suggests increasing matching problems, it is only the measurement of unfilled jobs which can verify this and at the same time quantify the effect on unemployment.
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- Lundborg, Per, 1950-, et al.
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Employer attitudes towards refugee immigrants : Findings from a Swedish survey
- 2016
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In: International labour review (Print). - : Wiley. - 0020-7780 .- 1564-913X. ; 155:2, s. 315-337
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on a large-scale survey of Swedish firms, the authors identify significant heterogeneity in their attitudes towards refugee hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination, though experience of employing refugees reduces negative attitudes. Firms' reasons for discontinuing their employment of refugees are not related to discrimination by staff or customers, but rather to refugees' suboptimal job performance. While the majority of firms do not regard the collectively agreed minimum wages as an important obstacle to the hiring of refugees, firms with a large share of refugees on the payroll report that reducing those wage rates would enhance employment substantially.
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- Ganguli, Ina, et al.
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Closing the gender gap in education : What is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers?
- 2014
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In: International Labour Review. - 1564-913X. ; 153:2, s. 173-207
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The educational gender gap has closed or reversed in many countries. But what of gendered labour market inequalities? Using micro-level census data for some 40 countries, the authors examine the labour force participation gap between men and women, the "marriage gap" between married and single women's participation, and the "motherhood gap" between mothers' and non-mothers' participation. They find significant heterogeneity among countries in terms of the size of these gaps, the speed at which they are changing, and the relationships between them and the educational gap. But counterfactual regression analysis shows that the labour force participation gap remains largely unexplained by the other gaps. © International Labour Organization 2014.
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- Anxo, Dominique, et al.
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The Swedish Model in Turbulent Times: Decline or Renaissance ?
- 2007
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In: International Labour Review. - : International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva. - 0020-7780. ; 145:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 1975-91, the "Swedish model" broke down, but - the authors argue - the basic components of the original model of the 1950s are now back in place. Responses to the deep economic crisis of the early 1990s have included the reinstatement of an anti-inflationary macroeconomic policy and the refocusing of active labour market policy on supply side measures. Yet Sweden's recovery from high unemployment and inflation also owes much to the re-coordination of wage bargaining in pursuit of three objectives: industrial peace, limiting the negative employment effects of an uncontrolled wage drift, and "subsidiarity" in adapting the provisions of industry-wide agreements to firms' competitive needs.
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