Have Labor Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed the Job and Employment Durations of new Entrants?

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Villosio, Claudia

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“…Bergemann and Mertens (2011) find a tendency towards shorter job durations for the period 1984 to 1998, but other studies present evidence of a rather constant level of job stability until the middle of the last decade (Giannelli et al 2012;Rhein 2010). Giesecke and Heisig (2011) look at the long period from 1984 to 2008 and thus cover the first years after the Hartz reforms.…”

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“…4 distinguishes between three skill levels (see also Table 5 in the appendix). The category of "unskilled" workers comprises those with lower than medium education 13 If anything, the labour market reforms adopted in the period 1999-2001 went in the direction of re-regulation (see Giannelli et al 2012). 14 The decrease in the 2009 survival probabilities for longer durations is due to the censoring of these spells at the end of 2010.…”

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The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms

Giannelli

Jaenichen

Rothe

2016

J Labour Market Res

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We address the concerns about rising inequality in the German labour market after the implementation of the Hartz reforms between 2003 and 2005. We focus on the quality of new jobs started between 1998 and 2010 in West Germany in terms of job stability and level of earnings. Using social security data drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies, we analyse the distributions of job durations and wages and model their determinants at the worker level. Our results show a high degree of job stability during and after the reform years, decreasing wage levels and increasing wage dispersion. Keywords

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The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms

Giannelli

Jaenichen

Rothe

2016

J Labour Market Res

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“…The literature also highlights that, when reducing employment protection legislation (EPL), workers' mobility increases while the effect on unemployment is ambiguous (Bertola 1990). Giannelli et al (2012) estimate that in Italy the duration of the first job spell of individuals entering the labor market decreased after the deregulation reforms (they study the period 1990-2000) and this effect was not counterbalanced by a higher probability of moving quickly to a new employer. Furthermore, they observe that "the share of workers with only one job spell within 3 years decreases, while the share of those with three or more spells increases".…”

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Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

Galizzi

Leombruni

Pacelli

2019

J Labour Market Res

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We investigate the long term employment outcomes of Italian injured workers over a time period when the country introduced policy reforms that increased labor market flexibility but reduced job security. Using an employeremployee database matched with injury data, we observe that both before and after the reforms almost one-fourth of injured workers were no longer employed 3 years after their "first" return to work. We note a slight decrease in this share after the reforms (from 24 to 22%) while we find a decline in workers' job security as measured by their probability of re-employment in permanent contracts. We use multinomial logit estimates to study how liberalization reforms were associated with a changing role of individual, firm, and injury characteristics in shaping long-term employment outcomes of injured workers after their recovery period. Heterogeneity analyses show that low wage employees, women, immigrants, and individuals who suffered a more severe injury were penalized more. Pre-injury individual characteristics became stronger predictors of long-term employment than firms' characteristics. In particular, we find that the advantage provided by working in larger firms was significant before the liberalization reforms, but disappeared afterward, while the advantage provided by human capital became more relevant after the liberalization.

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“…However, some authors argue that employed voters have in fact various levels of affective job insecurity and, in consequence, different policy preferences [Anderson, Pontusson, 2007]. The level of job insecurity depends on personal characteristics, especially job-specific and general human capital [Saint-Paul, 2002;Vindigni et al, 2015], the type of employment contract [Clark, Postel-Vinay, 2009], someone's occupation and the sector in which they operate [Fossati, 2014], and labour market institutions [Anderson, Pontusson, 2007;Giannelli et al, 2012]. The sense of job insecurity may also depend on the current labour market situation [Berglund et al, 2014;Blekesaune, 2007;Singer, 2013].…”

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Should the Government Provide Jobs for Everyone? Societal Expectations and Their Impact on Labour Market Institutions and Outcomes

Pilc

2018

Gospodarka Narodowa

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This study explores whether and to what extent voters expect the government to provide jobs for everyone who wants to work. It examines the link between voter expectations and the labour market situation. It finds that the stronger the expectation of the government to provide a job for everyone in the mid-1990s was, the worse the labour market situation is today. Two hypotheses inspired by the theory of public choice are proposed to explain this relationship: (1) societal expectations were not correlated with reforms of labour market institutions in the next two decades; (2) support for the idea of the government providing a job for everyone was significantly lower among the employed (who in many countries constituted the majority of voters) than among other groups, and this difference did not depend on the labour market situation. The empirical analysis is based on a set of 29 indicators of labour market institutions and covers countries included in the Role of Government survey for 1996-2016-conducted as part of the International Social Survey Programme. The obtained results are largely consistent with the stated hypotheses.

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Have Labor Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed the Job and Employment Durations of new Entrants?

Cited by 12 publications

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The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms

The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms

Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

Should the Government Provide Jobs for Everyone? Societal Expectations and Their Impact on Labour Market Institutions and Outcomes

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