Employment Insurance: Interregional Redistribution versus Protection against Changing Labour Market Conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-341
Author(s):  
Andreas Pollak
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Employment Insurance ◽  
Interregional Redistribution

Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labour market duality?

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1341-1361
Author(s):  
Hoon Choi
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Difference In Difference ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Employment Insurance ◽  
Part Time

PurposeThis paper examines whether and how labour market duality can be alleviated through legislation that prohibits discrimination based on employment type.Design/methodology/approachIn 2007, the Korean government undertook a labour reform banning discriminatory treatment against fixed-term, part-time and dispatched workers. By exploiting a gradual implementation of the anti-discrimination law by firm size targeting a subset of non-regular workers, the paper identifies the treatment effects of the anti-discrimination law, taking a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach.FindingsThe results suggest that the anti-discrimination law significantly increases hourly wages and the probabilities of being covered by national pension, health insurance, and employment insurance for targeted non-regular workers in small firms relative to other workers. Anticipatory behaviours of employers and selective transitions of employees in response to the implementation of the anti-discrimination law do not underlie the estimated effects. The presence of labour unions contributes to reducing gaps in labour conditions between regular workers and targeted non-regular workers.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on causal impacts of equal pay legislation on the gaps in labour conditions between different categories of workers, using a difference-in-difference-in-differences estimation.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
Anthony Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
Market Practice ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The conclusion offers a comprehensive summary of the arguments presented in the previous pages. The chapter highlights the various management practices and labour market conditions within the service economy and the impact this has upon the employee. It also reflects upon the imperatives of capitalism and neoliberal ideology and the impact upon subjectivities that display a willingness to harm in order to advance individual needs. In returning to the concept of harm, the chapter concludes that contacts do not necessarily see their experience as harmful as it reflects labour market practice at the level of everyday experience; it is simply the way it is. However, in returning to the idea of recognition and flourishing, or the search for stability and fixity, the harms of work are increasingly problematic and must be addressed.

Unemployment durations and local labour market conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (19) ◽  
pp. 2109-2122
Author(s):  
Tom Pierse ◽  
John McHale
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Local Labour Market ◽  
Local Labour
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