Unemployment and Poverty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pestieau ◽  
Mathieu Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Experience Rating ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Work Contracts

This chapter emphasizes the role of unemployment insurance and labour market policies. Starting from the recent evolution of unemployment in the European countries, it presents the main aspects of unemployment insurance systems and shows the disparities in terms of generosity and coverage among the countries. The trade-off between flexibility and protection of employees is presented and the example of the Danish flexicurity is put into perspective with recent reforms introduced in France or Germany that push for more activation and experience rating. The chapter then surveys the recent changes in the nature of European employment such as the case of deported workers or the increase of jobs related to new technologies. These changes exert pressure on the poorest workers and call for controls of work contracts.

How young people experience and perceive labour market policies in four European countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 263-292
Author(s):  
Roberta Ricucci ◽  
Chiara Ghislieri ◽  
Veneta Krasteva ◽  
Maria Jeliazkova ◽  
Marti Taru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Labour Market Policies

Economic Outcomes of Immigrants with Different Migration Motives: The Role of Labour Market Policies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kanas ◽  
Stephanie Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Refugee Immigrants

Abstract This paper studies the role of labour market policies for economic outcomes of immigrants with different migration motives. Using two recent European Union Labour Force Surveys ad hoc modules and applying country fixed-effects models, we examine if labour market policies can alleviate the economic disadvantage of family reunification and refugee immigrants in comparison to economic immigrants. In line with previous studies, we find that even after controlling for differences in human capital and socio-demographic characteristics, family reunification, and particularly refugee immigrants have considerably lower labour force participation and employment rates, and when employed, work fewer hours and have a lower occupational status than economic immigrants. However, we also find that the economic disadvantage of family reunification and refugee immigrants is significantly smaller in countries with more extensive labour market policies. These findings hold for the overall labour market mobility index as well as its specific sub-dimensions: general and targeted support and workers’ rights.

Benchmarking employment performance and labour market policies: the results of the Research project

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonello Tronti
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Project Report

The paper presents the main findings of the project 'Benchmarking employment performance and labour market policies' conducted by the Research Network of the European Employment Observatory, under the direction of the author. After a preliminary overview of the analytical areas covered and the topics contained in the project report (para. 2), the paper considers the role of benchmarking in the implementation of the European Employment Strategy (para. 3). It goes on to present the main results and observations deriving from the whole project (para. 4), discussing some of the conceptual and methodological issues arising from the use of benchmarking techniques to foster convergence in labour market efficiency, employment performance, labour market policies and firms' human resource management. Some brief concluding remarks (para. 6) address the institutional implications that arise in the implementation of an effective benchmarking procedure aimed at meeting the requirements of the European Employment Strategy.

ACCELERATING HIGH INVOLVEMENT: THE ROLE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN ENABLING EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN INNOVATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 1340020 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAGWAN ABU EL-ELLA ◽  
MARTIN STOETZEL ◽  
JOHN BESSANT ◽  
ANDREAS PINKWART
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Learning Curve ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
New Approaches

The experience of implementing employee involvement in innovation can be viewed as a bounded opportunity. Whilst long-term strategic benefits could flow from organising participation across the workforce, creating structures that sustain such a culture is highly complex. In effect the "transaction costs" of high involvement innovation limit its implementation. However a number of technological and social developments (such as innovation platforms and company social networks) offer new options in this space which may change this. In particular the "reach" and "richness" trade-off could be changed to permit higher levels of participation in larger-scale projects. Much depends on the ways in which implementation of systems deploying these new approaches is undertaken and the development of appropriate behavioural routines to support them. This paper explores a number of cases within German enterprises and reports early experience along this learning curve.

The puzzles of union density in Norway

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Nergaard ◽  
Torgeir Aarvaag Stokke
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Union Density ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
Insurance Funds ◽  
Market Factors ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Over Time

The level of union density in Norway is medium high, in contrast to the other Nordic countries where high density levels are supported by unemployment insurance funds. Developments in union density over time are stable in Norway, contrary to developments in most western European countries outside the Nordic region. This article traces the effects of unemployment insurance funds by comparing density levels in Norway with those in Finland and Sweden. In addition, the stability witnessed in union density in Norway over time is a particularly puzzling phenomenon, and the authors seek to explain it on the basis of specific institutional and labour market factors.

scholarly journals Everyone into Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-140
Author(s):  
Monique Kremer ◽  
Robert Went ◽  
Godfried Engbersen
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Market Opening ◽  
Active Labour

AbstractDespite successive Dutch governments emphasizing “jobs, jobs, jobs”, thousands of people who want to work have no jobs at all, never mind good jobs. Are new technologies, flexible contracts and the intensification of work helping or hindering vulnerable groups to stay in work - in good work in particular? This chaper seeks to answer these questions while analysing what is already being done to provide good work for all. Is the changing labour market opening new opportunities? We address the automation, flexibilization and intensification of work and discuss the need for active labour market policies.

Closing the Childcare Gap: The Interaction of Childcare Provision and Mothers' Agency in Norway

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE LISE ELLINGSÆTER ◽  
LARS GULBRANDSEN
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Closing The Gap ◽  
Increasing Demand

AbstractIn most European countries a ‘childcare gap’ exists: that is, a discrepancy between the demand for and provision of childcare. Among the countries that are succeeding in closing the gap are the Nordic welfare states. Hence, knowledge abouthowchildcare provision in these countries has developed is of wide interest. This article stresses the importance of studying how the interactive processes of changing provision and demand explain the building up and the closing of national childcare gaps. Although there are similarities in the development of Nordic childcare services, some differences stand out. The comparison indicates that complex societal processes interact in shaping provision and demand. These dynamics are explored in more detail in the Norwegian case, where the interactive processes have produced an ever-increasing demand for childcare. The demand side is crucial, particularly the role of mothers in generating momentum for policy change. Mothers' changing labour market patterns and their demand for childcare are important driving forces for policy change.

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