scholarly journals Firing Costs and Job Loss: The Case of the Italian Jobs Act

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Pigini ◽  
Stefano Staffolani
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Survival Probability ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Recruitment Strategy ◽  
Firing Costs ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
Permanent Workers ◽  
Jobs Act

AbstractA recent reform in the Italian labour market has modified the permanent contract by reducing firing costs. Using a discontinuity in the application of the reform, we evaluate its effect on the probability of being still employed about three and a half years later. In contrast with theoretical predictions, we find that the job survival probability is not smaller for the treated and even significantly larger in some cases. We investigate the composition of permanent workers hired after the reform and we find evidence of treated firms changing their recruitment strategy in favour of potentially more productive workers.

scholarly journals How much does others’ protection matter? Employment protection, future labour market prospects and well-being

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 893-914
Author(s):  
Christine Luecke ◽  
Andreas Knabe
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Permanent Workers

Abstract Employment protection legislation (EPL) is an important determinant of workers’ perceived labour market prospects and also their subjective well-being. Recent studies indicate that it is not only a worker’s own level of protection that matters for individual prospects and well-being, but also that of others. We examine how such cross-effects on well-being are mediated by workers’ perceived risk of job loss and future employability. We apply a structural model to data from the European Quality of Life Survey and the OECD Employment Protection Database. Our results indicate that both permanent and fixed-term workers’ perceived employability is affected by EPL, positively for fixed-term workers and negatively for permanent workers. Stricter protection for permanent workers is positively related to fixed-term workers’ perceived risk of job loss. EPL has significant indirect (cross-)effects on life satisfaction via the mediators. There are no indications for direct, non-mediated effects.

scholarly journals The Australian labour market in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110022
Author(s):  
Elisa Birch ◽  
Alison Preston
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
The Future

This article provides a review of the Australian labour market in 2020. It outlines the monetary and fiscal responses to COVID-19 (including JobKeeper, JobSeeker and JobMaker policies), describes trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment and summarises the Fair Work Commission’s 2020 minimum wage decision. Data show that in the year to September 2020, total monthly hours worked fell by 5.9% for males and 3.8% for females. Job loss was proportionately larger amongst young people (aged 20–29) and older people. It was also disproportionately higher in female-dominated sectors such as Accommodation and Food Services. Unlike the earlier recession (1991), when more than 90% of jobs lost were previously held by males, a significant share (around 40%) of the job loss in the 2020 recession (year to August 2020) were jobs previously held by females. Notwithstanding a pick-up in employment towards year’s end, the future remains uncertain.

scholarly journals IN THE SPIRIT OF FLEXIBILITY": an overview of Renzi’s reforms (the so-called jobs act) to ‘improve’ the italian labour market

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Maria Tereza Carinci
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Employment Contract ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Contract Structure ◽  
And Control ◽  
Jobs Act

1. The new "indefinite contract with increasing protection" (contratto di lavoro a tempo indeterminato a tutele crescenti): a captivating formula conceals pejorative rules on dismissal in indefinite contracts. – 2. Reduced protection for dismissal and effects on the employment contract structure: the employer's strengthened power (of withdrawal and disciplinary) and the resulting employee interest squeeze. 3. Indefinite contracts and the employer's strengthened powers in performing the employment: ius variandi and control power. 4. A new central position for indefinite contracts within the 'flexible' contract framework? 5. "In the spirit of flexibility": a solution for which problems?

Flexibel werken tijdens laagconjunctuur

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Dekker ◽  
Peter Achterberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Transition Rates ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Labour Market Position ◽  
Unemployment Data

Working flexible during unfavorable economic conditions Working flexible during unfavorable economic conditions In the Netherlands, working in a flexible job implies higher risks of job loss and insecurity at work. As most flexible workers eventually switch to a permanent job, labour market flexibility does not really function as an individual 'trap'. However, most studies on the consequences of flexible labour were carried out during more favorable economic conditions. In this article we study flexible workers' labour market position in a period of declining economic growth and rising unemployment. Data from the Dutch Institute for Labour Studies (OSA), ranging from 1998 to 2004, are analyzed with respect to 'unemployment', 'job insecurity' and the 'transition rates' from flexible contracts. Our main finding is that flexible employees cannot be regarded as a segmented workforce.

Twenty Years on: Has the Economy of the UK Coalfields Recovered?

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1654-1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Beatty ◽  
Stephen Fothergill ◽  
Ryan Powell
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Important Variation ◽  
The Uk

Almost the whole of the British coal industry has closed since the early 1980s. The authors assess the extent to which the areas once dependent on coalmining have adapted to this job loss. A ‘labour-market accounting’ approach is employed to document the principal changes in employment, unemployment, commuting, and activity rates among men in the English and Welsh coalfields over the period to 2004, building on previous similar research covering the period 1981–91. The authors point to a strong recovery of employment among men in these areas, though this is not yet on a scale to offset all the coal job losses and there is important variation between areas. There is also evidence of extensive and continuing ‘hidden unemployment’.

scholarly journals Protection of skills in employment relationships and in the labour market

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 1809-1820
Author(s):  
Marina Brollo ◽  
Caterina Mazzanti
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Job Tasks ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Jobs Act

Globalisation and technological changes have a dramatic impact on the labour market. For this reason, skills need to be strengthened and protected and workers have to respond to these great transformations by improving their professionalization. Focusing the attention on the Jobs Act, this paper offers an overview of the change that Italy may undertake, analysing the most innovative aspects of the new reform and paying particular attention to the protection of skills within the employment contract and the labour market. In this regard, the research highlights how the Jobs Act has strengthened the protection of skills. On the one hand, it specifies that in case of ‘changes in job tasks’ the employer shall provide training activities in order to develop the employee’s skills (art. 2103 Civil Code). On the other hand, from the perspective of the labour market, it provides efficient active labour market policies in order to tackle the lack of skills protection. These are all considerable positive steps: the Jobs Act Reform represents a move in the right direction and the first important step towards the development of an enhanced skill system.

The Great Recession and the Immigrant–Native Gap in Job Loss in the Spanish Labour Market

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 730-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Mooi-Reci ◽  
Jacobo Muñoz-Comet
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
The Great Recession

Geographical Variation in the Labour-Market Adjustment Process: The UK Coalfields 1981–91

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2041-2060 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Beatty ◽  
S Fothergill ◽  
P Lawless
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Geographical Variation ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Labour Market Flows

During the 1980s and early 1990s the UK coal industry shed more than 90% of its workforce. In this paper we explore the consequences for different coalfields and individual districts by means of comprehensive ‘labour-market accounts’. The impact of job loss on recorded unemployment shows remarkably little variation, but this disguises considerably greater diversity in other labour-market flows. There is evidence that much unemployment has become ‘hidden’ and that the disparities between areas are much larger than official figures suggest.

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