Determinants of Indefinite Contracts in Europe: The Role of Unemployment

Baccaro, Lucio; Koçer, Rüya Gökhan; Galindo, Jorge; Pulignano, Valeria

doi:10.1163/15691330-12341412

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“…Thus, these findings confirm the value of our multilevel, fine-grained approach to the analysis of low pay, strengthening a mounting body of multilevel research on labour market segmentation across countries and sectors (e.g. Baccaro et al, 2016;Bol and Weeden, 2015). More specifically, this article advances the debate on the relationship between IR institutions and low pay by partly reconciling the different positions of the two dominant theoretical approaches.…”

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Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany

Benassi

Vlandas

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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Employment relations scholars argue that industrial relations institutions reduce low pay among the workforce, while the insider-outsider literature claims that unions contribute to increase the low-pay risk among non-union members. This article tests these expectations by distinguishing, respectively, between the individual effect of being a union member or covered by collective agreements and the sectoral effect of strong trade unions or encompassing collective agreements. Findings from multilevel logistic regression analyses of the German Socio-Economic Panel reveal that unions and bargaining coverage have distinct effects at individual and sectoral level. The analysis of their cross-level interactions provides partial support to both the insider-outsider approach, since non-union members are more exposed to the risk of low pay in highly unionized sectors, and to the power resource perspectives, since the probability of being in low pay in sectors with encompassing collective agreements decreases also for those workers who are not covered by them.

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Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany

Benassi

Vlandas

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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“…Workers on precarious employment contracts do not find satisfaction in the job they do (Baccaro et al, 2014) because they are more concerned about demonstrating to their employers that they are reliable and hardworking so that the employer can continue to offer them work. Cooper and Rothmann (2013) defined job satisfaction as the result of employees' perception of how well their job provides those things that are viewed as important.…”

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UK company law and precarious employment contracts

Ndzi

2017

IJLMA

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PurposeThis paper aim to examine the implication of section 172(1)(b) on employment rights, particularly on workers on precarious employment contracts. The aim of the paper is to analyse whether company directors have any liability for potential abuse of worker on precarious employment contracts. The paper examine the advantage of companies recruiting staff on precarious employment contracts and the effect of such contract on the worker. Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews case law, statutory provisions and academic opinions on precarious employment contracts and its advantages and disadvantages to the company and the worker. The paper critically reviews the impact of Section 172(1)(b) of the Companies Act 2006 on precarious employment contract workers. FindingsThe paper argues that companies benefit more from precarious employment contracts than workers do. The Companies Act 2006 is silent on whether directors should factor the interest of precarious employment worker when making company decision, thereby leaving these workers in a vulnerable position and at the mercy of the employers. Originality/valueThe paper offers a different argument about why the use of precarious employment contracts is on the rise in the UK. It highlights the silence of the Companies Act 2006 as a driver for the increase in the use of precarious employment contracts in the UK.

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Measuring the strength of trade unions and identifying the privileged groups: A two-dimensional approach and its implementation

Koçer

2018

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

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Trade unions were important actors in the advanced capitalist countries until the late 1970s, but since the 1980s, union membership is declining. Whether this decline has been homogenous is crucial. Because unions may still have power and non-homogenous decline implies that some groups benefit from this power disproportionately. However, we don't have instruments to scrutinize this dynamic properly. To fill the gap, this study develops a model that identifies privileged groups within trade unions by informing us about the relative strength of a group within trade unions, the ability of this group to use the union power, and the extent to which union members belonging to the group would advance the interests of the entire group by using this power.

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Determinants of Indefinite Contracts in Europe: The Role of Unemployment

Cited by 4 publications

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Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany

Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany

UK company law and precarious employment contracts

Measuring the strength of trade unions and identifying the privileged groups: A two-dimensional approach and its implementation

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