Job Security And Flexibility

Author : Emil Dinga,Monica Florica Dutcas,Gabriela-Mariana Ionescu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031285097

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Job Security and Flexibility by Emil Dinga,Monica Florica Dutcas,Gabriela-Mariana Ionescu Pdf

This book examines the relationship between job security and job flexibility. Through an innovative conceptual approach, the concept of job flexicurity is presented to highlight the labour market dynamics between job flexibility and employee security. The dynamics of labour market mechanisms are placed within ideas of rigidity, security, flexibility, and plasticity to explore the interplay between different employee considerations. Particular attention is given to the Romanian labour market with an empirical case study that expands upon the ideas discussed. This book aims to analyse how job security and flexibility impact worker well-being and happiness. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in labour economics and the job market.

Author : Peter Andrew Reilly
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0566082594

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Flexibility at Work by Peter Andrew Reilly Pdf

Flexibility at Work shows you how to obtain the business benefits of flexibility whilst addressing the needs of both employer and employee. Peter Reilly breaks down flexibility into five different types, from functional through to financial. He introduces a model of how mutual flexibility might be developed and the preconditions necessary to make it successful. Along the way he cites much evidence of how employers are introducing alternative working arrangements that provide benefits to both parties.Flexibility can reduce costs, improve quality and service, increase productivity, hedge against change, and meet supply needs.

Author : Berton, Fabio,Richiardi, Matteo
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847429087

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The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility by Berton, Fabio,Richiardi, Matteo Pdf

The economic crisis has revealed the dark side of deregulation in the labour market: rising unemployment, limited access to social security and, due to low wages, no savings to count upon in bad times. This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labour market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security. Focusing on individual work histories, it looks at how labour market dynamics interact with the social protection system in bringing about inequality and insecurity. In this context Italy is put forward as the epitome of flexibility through non-standard work and compared with three similar countries: Germany, Spain and Japan. Results show that when flexibility is carried out as a mere cost-reduction device and social security only relies on insurance principles, deregulation leads to insecurity. 'The political economy of work security and flexibility' is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in the outcomes of labour market developments in advanced economies over the past twenty years.

Author : Kazuyoshi Kōshiro
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814320791

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Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility by Kazuyoshi Kōshiro Pdf

Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, increased labor market flexibility seems to have become an indispensable ingredient of economic success. This book examines the critical issues that affect labor market flexibility and job security in the main industrialized economies of the United States, Japan, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and Europe, in an attempt to more fully understand the complex forces at work within such labor markets. Employment Security and Labor Market Flexibility originated from The International Symposium on Labor Market Flexibility in Yokohama, Japan, in 1986, in which scholars in economics, industrial relations, and labor law scholars scrutinized the similarities and differences of the labor markets in these countries. They focused on three main topics: wage flexibility in response to changing economic conditions, the legal and institutional framework for employment security, and international comparison of employment adjustment. Comparison of wage flexibility as well as numerical and functional flexibility among these countries were examined by both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The labor market cannot be treated in the same way as other markets because it deals directly with human beings who are less likely to obey the immutable laws of the market mechanism. Nevertheless, Kazutoshi Koshiro asserts that it is still important to build a framework on which to understand and assess the role of labor flexibility in the competitive process, and it is with this framework in mind that these chapters have been assembled into one volume. Individual chapters compare the relative flexibility of compensation and employment over the business cycle in the United States with that of Japan; analyze the relative flexibility of Japanese wages; unravel some of the underlying forces that comprise the employment security situation in the United States; study the important relationship between economic conditions and the labor market and explain the difference between the employment protection legislation of the United States on the one hand, and Europe and Japan, on the other; and compare the nature of labor markets and employment adjustment techniques of the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Author : B. Furaker,K. Hakansson,J. Karlsson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230235380

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Flexibility and Stability in Working Life by B. Furaker,K. Hakansson,J. Karlsson Pdf

Flexibility is an ambiguous concept. This book contributes to expounding the importance of clearer concepts in the debates on economic systems, labour markets and work organization. The authors place 'flexibility' in a new theoretical context as juxtaposed to 'stability'. Much terminological confusion and is resolved by this suggestion.

Author : R. J. A. Muffels
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781007693

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Flexibility and employment security in Europe by R. J. A. Muffels Pdf

This title presents carefully selected articles that are at the ultimate forefront of professional studies on 'transitional labour markets' and 'flexicurity'.

Author : Tommy Isidorsson,Julia Kubisa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351358521

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Job Quality in an Era of Flexibility by Tommy Isidorsson,Julia Kubisa Pdf

This is the era of flexibility. Under constant pressure to be adaptable, organizations increasingly adopt employment practices such as zero-hours contracts, the casualization of the workforce and the use of temporary and agency labour. These flexible practices are central to debates about the changing nature of job quality and its causes, trends and consequences. Arguing that job quality is central to understanding contemporary work, this book explores the internal and external pressures for flexibility in workplaces, professions and sectors and how this pressure shapes workers’ experiences of job quality. By studying job quality dynamics via case studies from organizations and occupations in the UK, Poland, Belgium and Sweden, the volumes illustrates the diversity of practices and experiences, as well as market pressures and institutional arrangements which effect working lives. Finally, the editors propose a policy debate on the new concept "flexiquality" - a combination of flexibility and job quality that can be beneficial for both management and workers.

Author : Charles Leadbeater,Stephen Martin
Publisher : Demos
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Labor demand
ISBN : 9781898309949

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The Employee Mutual by Charles Leadbeater,Stephen Martin Pdf

Author : Kathleen Christensen,Barbara Schneider
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801457203

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Workplace Flexibility by Kathleen Christensen,Barbara Schneider Pdf

Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Workplace Flexibility underscores the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce. Considering the positive and negative consequences for employer and employee alike, the authors argue that, although there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices—in the United States or abroad—redesigning the workplace is essential if today's workers are effectively to meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve performance.

Author : James J. Heckman,Carmen Pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226322858

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Law and Employment by James J. Heckman,Carmen Pages Pdf

Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies of the costs of regulation. Numerous labor regulations that were introduced or reformed in Latin America in the past thirty years have had important economic consequences. Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman and Carmen Pagés document the behavior of firms attempting to stay in business and be competitive while facing the high costs of complying with these labor laws. They challenge the prevailing view that labor market regulations affect only the distribution of labor incomes and have little or no impact on efficiency or the performance of labor markets. Using new micro-evidence, this volume shows that labor regulations reduce labor market turnover rates and flexibility, promote inequality, and discriminate against marginal workers. Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economies against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quantifying not only the cost of regulation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the OECD, but also the broader impact of this regulation.

Author : Paulette Susan Haynes
Publisher : Canada Law Book
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Independent contractors
ISBN : 0888042639

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Human Resources Guide to Non-standard Employment by Paulette Susan Haynes Pdf

Author : Günther Schmid
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848441477

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Full Employment in Europe by Günther Schmid Pdf

The book is without doubt a must-read reflection on the notion of full employment and a source of inspiration for the establishing of the knowledge-based economy that is such an aspiration for Europeans. Thomas Bauwens, Agence Europe Every book by Günther Schmid is an event. This one illuminates the current European policy debate on flexicurity . It gives fresh analyses of the comparative employment performances of the EU and the USA, and proposes a path-breaking framework for understanding and improving them. Pragmatic and provocative, Schmid s contribution should be a must for researchers, but also for HR managers, social partners representatives and policymakers interested in the present and future of work and employment. Bernard Gazier, University Paris 1 and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France Transitional Labour Markets (TLM) defined as legitimate, negotiated and politically supported sets of various employment options in critical events over the life course are an essential ingredient of modern full employment strategies. After assessing the European Employment Strategy, this book offers a detailed comparative analysis of employment performance for selected European member states and the United States. It suggests that successful employment systems arise from a new paradigm of flexibility and security ( flexicurity ) the balance of which varies according to countries institutional paths. Whilst there is no best practice , TLM theory does provide normative and analytical principles that can be generalised for various institutional settings. The book also provides good practice examples for managing critical transitions over the life course from education to employment, from one job to another, from unemployment to employment, from private activities to gainful work and from employment to retirement and develops the contours for extending unemployment insurance to work life insurance. With a fresh and new approach to the question of full employment in modern society, this book will appeal to academic scholars interested in labour market and employment policies, and policy decision makers at local, regional, national and European levels.

Author : Denise M. Rousseau,René Schalk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761916814

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Psychological Contracts in Employment by Denise M. Rousseau,René Schalk Pdf

Contains 15 essays which discuss from diverse national perspectives obligations workers owe their employers and those owed by employers to their employees.

Author : Muneto Ozaki
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221108651

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Negotiating Flexibility by Muneto Ozaki Pdf

This timely volume discusses the extent to which the labor market is becoming more flexible in response to competitive pressures and examines the pivotal roles of collective bargaining in introducing this flexibility.Providing detailed information from 22 country studies, the book covers industrialized and developing nations across Western Europe, North and South America, and Asia. It analyzes the extent of flexibility introduced in these labor markets, as well as the changing role of the state in industrial relations, and the positions of employers and trade unions on labor market flexibility. This comprehensive study reviews the move toward flexibility in four principal areas: contracts of employment, pay, working time, and work organization.While closely examining the means of achieving greater labor market flexibility, this highly topical book addresses the various ways in which flexibility has been introduced, including through legislative action, collective bargaining, individual contracts of employment, and unilateral employer decisions. The findings in this book reveal that collective bargaining is the most effective means of introducing flexibility, as it engages both employers and workers in the process of change.In addition, the volume examines the outcomes of negotiations on flexibility at the central, sectoral, and enterprise levels, paying special attention to the trade-offs that arise, particularly in the areas of job security, working time, and workers' lifestyles.

Author : Allison J. Pugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199957781

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Beyond the Cubicle by Allison J. Pugh Pdf

While the economic implications of job insecurity are obvious, you are aware of the far-reaching consequences of precarious work. Beyond the cubicle explorers the hidden ramifications of job insecurity, from strained interpersonal relationships to crises of identity and self-worth. An interdisciplinary group of contributors attend to workers who vary by age, class, race, and gender. The cumulative finding is of powerful impacts to the new ways of organizing work, particularly upon emotions, individualism, and inequality outside the workplace. Beyond mere numbers and figures, the author and her collaborators give voice to the individuals who struggle with job insecurity beyond the walls at the workplace. --Cover.