Labour Market Flexibility and Spatial Mobility

Labour Market Flexibility and Spatial Mobility
Author: Raul Eamets
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781784414238

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This ebook examines different aspects of labour market flexibility, spatial mobility of workforce and its effects on labour market flexibility, and factors influencing both labour market flexibility and spatial mobility. Some papers also deal with integration and wage gains of migrant employees. Our intention is to elaborate research mainly in two relatively broad fields with existing research gaps. There is still little research on interactions between spatial mobility and labour market flexibility, despite the fact that some authors (e.g. Monastiriotis, 2005; Paas, Eamets, 2007) find that labour mobility is an essential part of labour market flexibility.

Flexibility, Mobility and the Labour Market

Flexibility, Mobility and the Labour Market
Author: George S. Callaghan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 042966740X

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First published in 1997. Politicians of all shades argue that the labour market should be more flexible and workers more mobile. But what does this mean in reality? How flexible and mobile are workers likely to be? Is there an ideological base to the language of flexibility? These are some of the issues covered in this book. Data from a large factory and office is used to argue that the macro labour market consists of non-competitive work groups where strongly held views and values represent a substantial barrier to simplistic definitions of flexibility and mobility. The analysis takes place in three chapters, dealing with recruitment for work, skills used in work and perceptions of different types of work and workers. The findings suggest that non-economic forces (such as institutional, social, historical and political phenomena) strongly influence the creation of separate work cultures. Furthermore, it is argued that the reason for differences between work groups being articulated in a defensive fashion reflects the climate of fear in the labour market, where flexibility is associated with a loss of the (often limited) power, control and influence workers have over their position in the labour market.

Mobile Living Across Europe II

Mobile Living Across Europe II
Author: Norbert F. Schneider
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3866498489

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Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in Europe. But how mobile are the Europeans? What are the consequences of professional mobility for quality of life, family life and social relationships? For the first time these questions are analysed on the basis of the data of a large-scale European survey. This vo l - ume analyses the causes and determinants of job mobility and their individual and societal consequences in cross-national comparison.

Flexibility in the Labour Market

Flexibility in the Labour Market
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Secretariat
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1986
Genre: Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN:

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Report on four issues raised by the current debate on labour market flexibility: labour costs, external and internal labour market mobility, and concealed employment. Examines the argument that high labour costs and wage inflexibility have priced workers out of the labour market, concluding that while wages are important in explaining unemployment, other factors are also significant. Discusses external labour market mobility (job mobility, geographic mobility and occupational change) as a means of adjusting to structural change, but finds that the link between mobility trends and labour market efficiency is difficult to ascertain. Looks at enterprise level flexibility, covering numerical and functional flexibility of the work force, and, finally, considers the phenomenon of concealed employment as a perverse form of labour market flexibility.

Building Sustainable Communities

Building Sustainable Communities
Author: Mike Raco
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1861347448

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This book uses historical and contemporary materials to document the ways in which policy-makers, in different eras, have sought to use state powers and regulations to create better, more balanced, and sustainable communities and citizens.

Overeducation and Spatial Flexibility

Overeducation and Spatial Flexibility
Author: Carlo Devillanova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

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This paper studies the relationship between internal mobility and overeducation. Using a large survey on the Italian labour market, it estimates the effect of workers' spatial flexibility (precise information on commuting and migration) on their probability of being overeducated. The analysis tries to deal with two possible causes of misspecification, which can bias the correlation between migration and overeducation downward: the endogeneity of migration and the omission of relevant job characteristics. This adds to the received literature. It also deals with selection into employment and controls for area and personal characteristics, including several proxies for individual's ability. Results show that commuting is positively correlated with the quality of the education-job match. On the contrary, the conventional wisdom that internal migration unambiguously reduces the incidence of overeducation does not receive empirical support. The negative correlation between migration and overeducation vanishes once job characteristics are included in the analysis and becomes positive when migration is instrumented. These findings can be easily rationalized by incorporating some of the suggestions of the literature on international migration into the standard framework used in spatiallybased explanations for overeducation. From a policy perspective, it seems fair to conclude that the link between internal migration and overeducation remains unclear and that further research is needed in order to better ground policy prescriptions.

Segmented Labor Markets and Labor Mobility

Segmented Labor Markets and Labor Mobility
Author: Michael Reich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Labor demand
ISBN: 9781847203496

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Michael Reich PART I PIONEERING STATEMENTS `Low-Income Employment and the Disadvantaged Labor Force', and `Quantitative Analysis of Worker Instability in the Low-Income Labor Market' in Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis, Chapter 8 and Appendix, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 163-83, 184-88 3 (26) Peter B. Doeringer Michael J. Piore `The Dual Labor Market: Theory and Implications', in David M. Gordon (ed.), Problems in Political Economy: An Urban Perspective, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 90-94 29 (5) Michael Piore `A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation', American Economic Review, 63 (2), May, 359-65 34 (7) Michael Reich David M. Gordon Richard C. Edwards `The Period of Consolidation: World War II to 1970s' and `Evidence for the Segmentation Hypothesis' excerpts from Chapter 5, `The Segmentation of Labor: 1920s to the Present', in Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 185-215, notes, references 41 (40) David M. Gordon Richard Edwards Michael Reich PART II EARLY DEBATES `An Empirical Study of Labor Market Segmentation', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 28 (4), July, 508-23 81 (16) Paul Osterman `The Challenge of Segmented Labor Market Theories to Orthodox Theory: A Survey', Journal of Economic Literature, 14 (4), December, 1215-57 97 (43) Glen G. Cain `Structured Labour Markets, Worker Organisation and Low Pay', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2 (1), March, 17-36 140 (20) Jill Rubery `Male Occupational Standing and the Dual Labor Market', Industrial Relations, 19 (1), Winter, 34-49 160 (16) Sam Rosenberg `Segmentation, Duality and the Internal Labour Market', in Frank Wilkinson (ed.), The Dynamics of Labour Market Segmentation, London and New York, NY: Academic Press, 3-20, references 176 (20) Paul Ryan `Economic Dualism and Employment Stability', Industrial Relations, 22 (3), Fall, 410-18 196 (11) Robert Buchele PART III THEORETICAL MODELS AND ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE `Wages and Employment in a Segmented Labor Market', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 100 (4), November, 1115-41 207 (27) Ian M. McDonald Robert M. Solow `A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination, and Keynesian Unemployment', Journal of Labor Economics, 4 (3, Part I), 376-414 234 (39) Jeremy I. Bulow Lawrence H. Summers `Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence', in William Darity, Jr. (ed.), Labor Economics: Problems in Analyzing Labor Markets, Chapter 5, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 141-80 273 (42) William T. Dickens Kevin Lang PART IV INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES `Getting a Good Job: Mobility in a Segmented Labor Market', Industrial Relations, 30 (3), Fall, 396-416 315 (21) Howard Wial `Internal and External Labour Markets: Towards an Integrated Analysis', in Jill Rubery and Frank Wilkinson (eds), Employer Strategy and the Labour Market, Chapter 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 37-68, references 336 (35) Jill Rubery `Divide and Conquer in Australia: A Study of Labor Segmentation', Review of Radical Political Economics, 27 (1), 25-70 371 (48) Robert Drago PART V IMMIGRANTS, GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY `Spatial Mismatch and Labor Market Segmentation for African-American and Latina Women', Economic Geography, 68 (4), October, 406-31 419 (26) Sara McLafferty Valerie Preston `Hispanic Immigration and Labor Market Segmentation', Industrial Relations, 27 (2), Spring, 195-214 445 (20) Gregory DeFreitas `Labor Market Segmentation: African American and Puerto Rican Labor in New York City, 1960-1980', in James B. Stewart (ed.), African Americans and Post-Industrial Labor Markets, Chapter 10, New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 205-23 465 (20) Andres Torres Name Index 485 Acknowledgements vii An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I OVERVIEWS `From Segmentation to Flexibility', Labour and Society, 14 (4), October, 363-407 3 (45) Sam Rosenberg `Rethinking Employment', British Journal of Industrial Relations, 33 (4), Special Issue, December, 563-602 48 (40) Peter Cappelli `Changes in the Structure and Quality of Jobs in the United States: Effects by Race and Gender, 1973-1990', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 48 (3), April, 420-40 88 (21) Maury B. Gittleman David R. Howell `Labour Markets and Flexibility in the 1990s: The Europe-USA Opposition Revisited', International Review of Applied Economics, 13 (3), September, 269-79 109 (11) Francesca Bettio Samuel Rosenberg `Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain', Review of Economics and Statistics, 89 (1), February, 118-33 120 (19) Maarten Goos Alan Manning PART II THE GROWTH OF TEMPORARY JOBS IN EUROPE `Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?', Economic Journal, 112 (480), June, F189-F213 139 (25) Alison L. Booth Marco Francesconi Jeff Frank `Temporary Employment in Europe: Characteristics, Determinants and Outcomes', Brussels Economic Review, 48 (1-2), 13-41 164 (29) Anna Cristina D'Addio Michael Rosholm `The Incidence of Temporary Employment in Advanced Economies: Why is Spain Different?', European Sociological Review, 22 (1), February, 61-78 193 (20) Javier G. Polavieja PART III GENDER, IMMIGRANT STATUS AND RACE `Female Dual Labour Markets and Employee Benefits', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 52 (1), February, 18-37 213 (20) T. Ghilarducci M. Lee `Immigration, Labor Market Mobility, and the Earnings of Native-Born Workers: An Occupational Segmentation Approach', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 65 (2), April, 313-45 233 (36) Roberto Pedace PART IV ECONOMETRIC CONTROVERSIES REDUX `Segmented Labour Markets: Theory and Evidence', Journal of Economic Surveys, 12 (1), 63-101 269 (39) Marianthi Rannia Leontaridi `Segmented Labour Markets: A Critical Survey of Econometric Studies', Caledonian Business School, Glasgow Caledonian University Working Paper No. 36, October, 2-30, references 308 (37) Emily Thomson PART V FLEXICURITY `Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work', Presentation at UNDESA Development Forum on Productive Employment and Decent Work, 8-9 May, 2-15 345 (14) Gerry Rodgers `Employment and Decent Work in the Era of ``Flexicurity''', UNDESA Development Forum on Productive Employment and Decent Work, Working Paper No. 32, ST/ESA/2006/DWP/32, September, 1-23 359 (24) Robert Boyer Name Index 383.

Labour Market Flexibility

Labour Market Flexibility
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1991
Genre: Labor market
ISBN:

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Discusses five major topics: the meaning of the term "flexibility", the various forms which it takes in practice, its short-and long-term implications, the diverse forms it may assume in different national contexts, and finally its effectiveness as an instrument of economic and employment policy