Beyond Industrial Dualism

Beyond Industrial Dualism
Author: Thierry J. Noyelle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429721846

This book attempts to identify some principal dimensions of the process of market and job restructuring by means of case studies of service companies. It places special emphasis on the job restructuring issue and, in particular, on the decline of internal labor markets in the U.S. economy.

Dual Labor Markets and the Equilibrium Distribution of Firms

Dual Labor Markets and the Equilibrium Distribution of Firms
Author: Josep Pijoan-Mas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Contracts for work and labor
ISBN:

We study the effects of a dual labor market structure on firm dynamics, the firm size distribution, and aggregate productivity. Using rich Spanish administrative data, we document that the usage of fixed-term (FT) contracts is very heterogeneous across firms within narrowly defined sectors, and that the share of temporary workers increases monotonically with firm size. We write an equilibrium search-and-matching model of firm dynamics with FT and open-ended (OE) contracts to understand the choice of contract type by heterogeneous firms and the equilibrium joint distribution of employment and temporary share across firms. A key feature of the calibrated economy is that matching efficiency is much larger in the FT than in the OE market. Because of this, firms face a trade-off between the lower costs of attracting workers to FT contracts and the higher turnover of FT vacancies. With decreasing returns to scale, the opportunity cost of unfilled vacancies is lower for larger firms, so these firms hire a higher fraction of temporary workers. In equilibrium, the dual labor market structure makes it difficult for firms to become large because of the high turnover of FT contracts and the strong competition of smaller firms for OE contracts. In counterfactual exercises, we find that limiting the duration of FT contracts decreases the share of temporary employment and the unemployment rate, but at the expense of firm destruction and lower aggregate productivity. Instead, making FT contracts more similar to OE contracts by increasing their duration allows the economy to expand through a reduction in the unemployment rate and an increase in aggregate productivity.

Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis

Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis
Author: Peter B. Doeringer
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1985-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780765632128

This book discusses the institutional aspects of the American labor market. The introduction assesses the major changes since 1971.

Varieties of Precarity

Varieties of Precarity
Author: Sophia Seung-yoon Lee
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2023-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447369262

Despite recent achievements in the South Korean economy and development within welfare institutions, new forms of precarious work continue to prevail. This book introduces the concept of ‘melting labour’, which refers to the blurring of boundaries between traditional forms of work and workplace and the dissolution of standard employment relationships. Presenting a theoretical framework at the intersection of ‘melting labour’ and institutional protection of workers, it addresses how and why the Korean welfare state has failed to protect precarious workers. Based on rich, in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, from subcontracted manufacturing workers to platform workers, it provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.

Event History Analysis in Life Course Research

Event History Analysis in Life Course Research
Author: Karl Ulrich Mayer
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780299122041

A compendium of studies drawn from an international conference, this volume includes the newest and most substantive work on event history analysis. Researchers at four institutions convened, shared models of analysis, and collected their findings for the first time. The studies included represent work done in the following organizations: The Max Planck Institute in West Germany; The U.S. Social Science Research Council's Committee on Comparative Stratification; The Special Research Unit of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; and MASO, and informal German working group on mathematical sociology. This book is one of twelve in the University of Wisconsin Press's Life Course Studies series, arranged by the series editors David L. Featherman and David I. Kertzer.

Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany

Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany
Author: Markus Gangl
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642573347

In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest social science research has been devoted to the issue of unemployment. Unemployment rightly is a key issue in the social sciences for search of social and political answers to the economic, social and psychological distress caused by un certainty and macroeconomic change. I was glad to find my own worries shared by eminent and respected scholars: George Akerlof once confessed to pursue the study of unemployment ultimately because of his father's distress from fear of un employment, and Wout Ultee started research on unemployment from the consid eration that parents' talk about unemployment risks should not come to dominate marriage parties or other family occasions. The problem of unemployment is thus hardly confmed to actual loss of income, but one where economic insecurity be gins to undermine the very fabric of society. In consequence, to combat unem ployment should indeed be a foremost issue in societies striving for freedom and justice for their citizenry, yet to succeed obviously requires an understanding of the underlying economic realities. If this study could contribute to this endeavor, all the time spent in writing would seem well spent indeed. Against the significant body of existing social science research on unemploy ment, it seems appropriate to be clear about the scope and limitations of the cur rent study, however.