Labor Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Skill-Based Temporary Employment and Unemployment Risks in Europe

Autor/inn/en	Gebel, Michael; Giesecke, Johannes
Titel	Labor Market Flexibility and Inequality: The Changing Skill-Based Temporary Employment and Unemployment Risks in Europe
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 90 (2011) 1, S.17-39 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1093/sf/90.1.17
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Unemployment; Temporary Employment; Employment Patterns; Labor Market; Risk; Skilled Workers; Comparative Analysis; Economic Change; Social Indicators; Job Skills; Skilled Occupations; Employment Potential; Work Environment; Public Policy; Policy Analysis; Labor Economics; Microeconomics; Economic Impact; Equal Opportunities (Jobs) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arbeitslosigkeit; Zeitarbeit; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Risiko; Facharbeiter; Ökonomischer Wandel; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Produktive Fertigkeit; Fachangestellter; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Arbeitsmilieu; Öffentliche Ordnung; Politikfeldanalyse; Arbeitsökonomie; Mikroökonomie; Ökonomische Determinanten; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf
Abstract	In this article we use comparative micro data for 15 European countries covering the period 1992-2007 to study the impact of labor market reforms on the skill-related individual risk of holding a temporary contract and the risk of being unemployed. Our results indicate no general increase in either of these skill gaps. Using two-step multilevel analyses, we show that in the case of high protection of regular contracts, lowering restrictions on the use of temporary contracts increases the relative temporary employment rates of low-skilled workers. However, this kind of partial deregulation, which has been implemented in the majority of Western European countries, has not translated into decreasing unemployment risks of the low-skilled vis-a-vis medium- and highly-skilled persons. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10