Labor Market, Pension Rule Structure and Retirement Benefit Promise for Long-Term Employees

O’Rand, Angela M.; MacLean, Vicky M.

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“…Yet the term is misleading, since they are not "fringe" at all (O'Rand 1986). Rather, because they are designed to protect the income and income producing capacity of employees, such benefits are fundamental aspects of remuneration that exaggerate the inequality resulting from income differences (O'Rand and MacLean 1986;Root 1985).…”

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Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender

Seccombe

1993

The Sociological Quarterly

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This research investigates gender differences in employer‐sponsored medical fringe benefits: health insurance, dental insurance, sick leave, life insurance, and eye care coverage. Using data from a nationally representative sample of workers in the United States, human capital and structural theoretical approaches are drawn upon to explain the receipt of these benefits. The data suggest (a) men were more likely than women to receive each medical benefits from their employer; (b) occupational conditions largely account for the gender differences in coverage; (c) structural conditions of the occupation were more likely to predict the receipt of employer‐sponsored medical benefits than were human capital attributes; (d) hazardous working conditions were not compensated for with medical benefits, with the exception of eye care coverage; and (e) gender did influence the relationship between several occupational conditions and benefit coverage.

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Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender

Seccombe

1993

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…In addition, they will want to bind employees to their company or industry. Hence, they will try to make pension protection dependent on seniority in the industry (O'Rand and MacLean, 1986). These considerations could harm the pension build-up of flexible workers.…”

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Flexicurity in Bismarckian Countries? Old Age Protection for Non-standard Workers in Belgium

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In the debate on 'flexicurity', relatively little attention has been paid to how responsive traditional areas of social security have been to increasing flexibility in the labour market. This article tries to fill this gap by focusing on the Belgian pension system. In particular, it asks to what extent pension regulation in the three pillars has been adapted to the proliferation of atypical forms of employment. It does so by examining whether there are significant differences between old age protection of standard and non-standard workers. The article pursues a double research strategy: an analysis of Belgian legislation and relevant collective labour agreements is complemented with a statistical analysis of the Panel Study of Belgian Households (PSBH). The results show that part-time employment results in a lower first-pillar pension, while other forms of temporal flexibility such as career interruptions and temporary unemployment do not. In the second pillar, our findings suggest that workers with contractual flexibility and job mobility are discriminated against. Finally, non-standard workers do not appear to compensate for lower pension protection through increased participation in the third pension pillar. Our findings suggest the need for a re-assessment of the system of 'assimilated' periods. To conclude, we point to some implications for the design of flexicurity policies.

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“…1 A key element of job satisfaction is how employees evaluate their compensation. 2 Curiously, although there is a voluminous literature demonstrating that labor unions are associated with better pay and benefits, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] there is very little research examining how labor union membership relates to workers' feelings about their pay and benefits. This gap in knowledge about the subjective dimensions of economic outcomes may arise from an assumption that subjective and objective economic outcomes will be the same.…”

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“…One potential explanation for this discrepancy is how workers feel about their economic circumstances. This article examines whether union members, despite advantages in both areas, 3,4,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] appraise their economic circumstances less favorably than nonunion members appraise theirs. Motivated by the need for explicit examination of how compensation appraisals relate to union membership, the Background section begins with an overview of the literature on labor unions and objective outcomes.…”

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“…4,8 Furthermore, although the research is more mixed, labor unions also are associated with higher availability and generosity of retirement pensions. 8,10 But the assumption that subjective outcomes align with objective outcomes is dubious. Knowing that union workers do well compared with nonunion workers does not answer the question of whether they feel that they do well.…”

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Compensation Appraisals and Labor Union Membership

Reynolds

2018

New Solut

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Given the beneficial effects of labor unions on "bread and butter issues," union members should appraise their economic circumstances more favorably than nonunion members do. Yet, research on the anomaly of the dissatisfied union worker challenges this expectation. Using the General Social Survey's Quality of Work Life module, this article examines whether union members appraise their economic circumstances less favorably than nonunion members. Results suggest that union membership is associated with more favorable appraisal of benefits but not wages. These findings may help to provide at least a partial explanation for the anomaly of the dissatisfied union worker. Because income constitutes a vital component of job satisfaction, this study contributes more broadly to our understanding of employee well-being. It also connects the study of occupational health to that on institutions, contributes to the growing literature on the political economy of health, and highlights latent effects of union security agreements.

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Labor Market, Pension Rule Structure and Retirement Benefit Promise for Long-Term Employees

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Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender

Employer Sponsored Medical Benefits: The Influence of Occupational Characteristics and Gender

Flexicurity in Bismarckian Countries? Old Age Protection for Non-standard Workers in Belgium

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