Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?

Explaining the Evolution of Job Tenure in Europe, 1995–2020

“…Almost all temporary workers move into permanent jobs in Austria, Estonia, and Germany. However, half of all temporary workers in Spain and Italy remain in temporary jobs for more than a decade (Eichhorst, Marx, and Wehner 2017). The transition from fixed-term to permanent contracts is lower for foreign-born workers, who are more likely to work for longer periods on fixed-term contracts (Skedinger 2018).…”

Unemployment in the Euro Area and Unconventional Monetary Policy Surprises

“…By contrast, in the core countries, the reduction is only minor. While we cannot draw a compelling inference about the driving forces behind our results -possible explanations could be the implementation of structural labor market reforms in the periphery countries (Eichhorst et al, 2017), or the effect of unconventional monetary policy to lower risk premiums on peripheral bonds (Altavilla et al, 2021;Fanelli and Marsi, 2022) -they show that the euro area labor markets were affected in different ways by unconventional monetary policy measures.…”

Labour market flexibilisation in Lithuania: Outcomes and impacts on gender differences in work arrangements

“…In the post-independence period, pro-worker labour law inherited from the socialist era was only gradually replaced by an increasingly flexible, pro-employer or pro-capital regime. This path-dependent trend in labour law reforms was typical of other former socialist countries as well (Eichhorst et al, 2017;Koukiadaki et al, 2016;Pula, 2020).…”

“…For analytical purposes, studies on outcomes of labour law reforms can be subdivided into two overlapping areas (Cook, 2007: 1–24). The first, focusing on the political dynamics of labour reforms, investigates the capacity and actions of policymakers to implement reforms, and the capacities and roles of labour, business groups, transnational and other social actors in obstructing or facilitating reform goals (Adascalitei and Morano, 2016; Eichhorst et al, 2017).…”