scholarly journals What determines the reforms of employment protection legislation? A global perspective

Equilibrium ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Michał Pilc
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Heritage Foundation ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
The Government

The aim of this research was to identify the determinants of the employment protection legislation reforms in the global perspective. The study was based on the Labor Freedom index published by the Heritage Foundation, which allowed to include 179 countries in the research that were observed in the period 2003–2013. The conducted study has indicated that changes in GDP and the level of employment in industry may induce the introduction of labor reforms. The changes in the labor law also occurred to be correlated with the number of the nearly excluded from the labor market (the long-term unemployed and youth not in education, employment or training) and also with changes in the government expenditure. However, all these factors may lead to substantially various reform programs in particular countries due to the heterogeneous political pressure of the labor market interest groups and different governmental determination in introduction of the reforms.

Employment Protection Legislation in Emerging Economies

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Samir Amine ◽  
Wilner Predelus
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Labor Market Regulations

With emerging economies facing significant lags in the use of information technology to improve their productivity and compete with industrialized economies, the availability of relatively lower-cost labor in the emerging economies is considered a powerful asset that can compensate for their technological disadvantage. However, regulating the labor market often proves to be rather challenging as it is important that a balance be struck between protecting workers and stimulating economic growth. This chapter analyzes the literature on labor market regulations in the emerging economies to observe that the trade-off between employment protection legislation (EPL), job creation, productivity, and innovation often cited in the literature is not conclusive.

Non-standard Employment and the Russian Labor Market

2006 ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
V. Gimpelson ◽  
R. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Subsistence Farming ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Part Time

The article focuses on diversification and destandartization of employment in the Russian economy. The authors discuss global and objective preconditions for this process but underline a few specific features of the Russian case. The latter are due to the market transition as well as to incomplete and selective enforcement of the excessively restrictive employment protection legislation. This explains high incidence of household-based subsistence farming, underemployment, time-related overemployment, informal employment against low level of formal contracts for fixed-term or part-time employment. Using representative data the authors illustrate all major forms of non-standard employment in Russia that have evolved since 1992.

scholarly journals The partisan politics of employment protection legislation: Social democrats, Christian democrats, and the conditioning effect of unemployment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Reimut Zohlnhöfer ◽  
Linda Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Regular Employment ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
The Government

Abstract Political parties are likely to hold differing views about employment protection legislation (EPL). While pro-welfare parties could support EPL, pro-market parties might focus on labour market deregulation. In this paper, we investigate empirically whether partisan politics, especially the government participation of Social democrats and Christian democrats, matter for EPL in 21 established OECD countries from 1985 to 2019. We show that during the golden age of the welfare state, the level of EPL was much higher where Social and Christian democrats dominated the government than elsewhere. After the golden age and under conditions of high unemployment, these unconditional effects mostly disappeared. Instead, the level of unemployment conditions partisan differences. Christian democrats liberalize EPL for regular employment significantly less than other parties under high levels of unemployment. In contrast, Social democrats defend high levels of EPL for regular and temporary employment when unemployment is low. Against expectations, they even liberalize employment protection for labour market insiders more than other parties at very high levels of unemployment.

An Inventory of Employment Protection Legislation in France

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Hervé Charmettant
Keyword(s):  
Training System ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Overall Stability ◽  
Protection Legislation

This chapter presents an inventory of the employment protection legislation (EPL) in France. As shown by the OECD indicators, legal provisions have met with an overall stability since the 1980s, despite some reforms weighing in favor of flexibility. Simultaneously, France has been faced with a high rate of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, as well as with a phenomenon of dualization of its job market. Precariousness remains limited to a part of workers whose situation tends, however, to worsen. This twofold observation leads us to the conclusion that current employment protection is relatively powerless, with a bleak future. Therefore, an adaptation to current circumstances is required, such adaptation being coupled with an improvement of the training system. Flexicurity is the direction that seems unavoidable in order to guide future reforms in France.

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