Quantitative effects of temporary employment contracts in Spain

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Alvarez ◽  
Marcelo Veracierto
Keyword(s):  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Employment Contracts

scholarly journals Labor Market Institutions, Mobility, and Dualization in the Nordic Countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jørgen Svalund
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Labor Market Institutions ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Temporary Contracts ◽  
Labor Market Transitions ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Market Transitions

Comparing the Nordic countries, this article examines different combinations of permanent and temporary employment protection legislation, and whether such differences are reflected in patterns of labor market transitions. We find higher levels of transitions from unemployment to temporary contracts in Sweden and Finland, with lax regulation of temporary contracts and strict regulation of permanent contracts. Further, temporary employees are integrated into permanent contracts in countries with lax (Denmark) or strict (Norway) regulation of permanent contracts, while this is not the case in Finland and Sweden. For these countries, the study indicates a certain degree of labor market duality, with low mobility from temporary to permanent employment contracts.

Who moves from fixed-term to open-ended contracts? Youth employment transitions in a segmented labour market

2020 ◽  
pp. 000169932092091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kiersztyn
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
Employment Transitions ◽  
Stable Employment

This article explores the career effects of fixed-term employment among Polish youth, taking into account specific legal and institutional arrangements affecting both the incidence of temporary jobs and the chances of moving into more stable employment contracts. The aim of the analysis is twofold. First, it seeks to assess whether temporary contracts serve as a stepping-stone to stable employment or a trap leading to fragmented careers consisting of recurrent short-term jobs. Second, it identifies the factors which increase the chances of successful labour market integration. Both issues are addressed through a quantitative analysis of retrospective career data for a cohort of respondents aged 21–30 from two waves of the Polish Panel Survey (POLPAN), 2008 and 2013. Results suggest that temporary employment is not restricted to entry-level jobs and acts as a trap rather than a stepping-stone. In addition, the opportunities for moving from fixed-term to open-ended contracts appear to have deteriorated over the years. However, gaining early on-the-job experience, especially in occupations involving highly complex tasks, may improve the chances of attaining job stability.

EVALUATION OF THE STABILITY’S FACTORS OF LABOR RELATIONS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY AT THE CONTEXT OF FIXED-TERM EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-158
Author(s):  
Irina A. Glotova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
The State ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Employment Contract ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Short Period

Temporary employment is defined in the scientific literature as atypical for the sphere of wage labour and even as an element of precarious employment. Today, fixed-term labour contracts are seen as a mechanism for labour market actors to respond to any shocks in the economy, a way of flexibly regulating the number of employees and reducing "dead" costs for employers. Russian labour law prohibits the conclusion of fixed-term employment contracts for the purpose of avoiding the rights and guarantees provided for workers with whom an indefinite-term employment contract is concluded. But extensive court practice in challenging dismissal due to the expiry of the term of the employment contract shows that a significant proportion of employers conclude fixed-term employment contracts in violation of the requirements of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation, in order to avoid providing labour rights and guarantees to employees. These vio-lations mainly include repeated conclusion of fixed-term contracts for a short period to per-form the same work function, "imposition" of a condition on the fixed-term nature of the con-tract in the absence of the employee's will, in situations where the law requires an agreement of the parties to the employment contract for the conclusion of a fixed-term contract. In the modern economic environment, a form of short-term employment called casual work has developed, which is most often recognised in the literature as informal, precarious employment. Despite this, casual work has become widespread in developed countries, and particularly in jobs related to the on-demand economy, with the use of digital platforms. The negative aspect of the wide use of fixed-term employment contracts in the EU is reflected in the persistent entrenchment of temporary workers in the labour market, whose growth can be restrained only with the assistance of the state. Thus, the analysis of the practice of flexible forms of employment in foreign countries shows that short-term contracts are now widely integrated into the global labour market, which is confirmed by the statistical data on the growth of fixed-term contracts in most coun-tries. This process can hardly be stopped, but, based on the experience of EU countries, it seems possible at least to find a way to adapt to this situation by balancing the rights and interests of workers, employers and the state in such relations and preventing the transfor-mation of fixed-term employment relations into precarious ones.

scholarly journals Explaining the Informal Economy: an Exploratory Evaluation of Competing Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Informal Economies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Cross National

The aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory analysis of the wider economic and social conditions associated with larger informal economies. To do this, three competing perspectives are evaluated critically which variously assert that cross-national variations in the size of the informal economy are associated with: under-development (modernization perspective); high taxes, corruption and state interference (neo-liberal perspective), or inadequate state intervention to protect workers (political economy perspective). Analyzing the variable size of the informal economy across 33 developed and transition economies, namely 28 European countries and five other OECD nations (Australia, Canada, Japan, New zealand and the USA), the finding is that larger informal economies are associated with under-development as measured by lower levels of GNI per capita, employment participation rates, average wages and the institutional strength and quality of the bureaucracy, higher levels of perceived public sector corruption, lower levels of expenditure on social protection and labour market intervention to protect vulnerable groups, but also restrictions on the use of temporary employment contracts and TWAs. The outcome is a tentative call to combine a range of tenets from all three perspectives in a new more nuanced and finer-grained understanding of how the cross-national variations in the size of the informal economy are associated with broader economic and social conditions. The paper concludes by discussing the implications for theory and policy, including the need for further analysis of the different impacts on the size of the informal economy of a wider range of indicators of modernization, corruption, taxation and types of state intervention.

Strategic use of Temporary Employment Contracts as Real Options

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Brady ◽  
Anthony Briody
Keyword(s):  
Real Options ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Temporary Contracts ◽  
Holding Back ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Academic Sector

Managers operate in an environment characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. This paper focuses on uncertainty and demonstrates how managers are mitigating supply-side uncertainty through the use of temporary employment contracts. These temporary employment contracts are being used as real options where uncertainty is reduced by reducing irreversibility and by increasing flexibility. The empirical work comprised in-depth interviews with employees and employers in the academic sector, a sector that has a tradition of employing people on temporary contracts. The key findings are: temporary employment contracts provide the organisation with a low-risk mechanism for reducing uncertainty in supply; temporary employment contracts increase flexibility and reduce irreversibility for the organisation and shift risk from the institution to the employee. However, there is a cost to the organisation in the form of demotivation, holding back and early exit of desirable employees. It can also lead to an organisational division between staff employed on temporary contracts and those on permanent contracts. The paper has relevance to managers and decision makers who operate in sectors or levels where human resource abilities are initially opaque but are revealed over time.

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