The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staff Arrangements

Houseman, Susan N.

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“…While using nonstandard work arrangements employers are confronted with a trade-off because they need to take into account costs and benefits of certain work arrangements (Houseman 2001;Sesselmeier 2007). Direct wages, additional costs for social security and costs of hiring and firing need to be weighed against the workers' productivity.…”

Section: Work Arrangements and Potential Driving Forcesmentioning

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Times of change: what drives the growth of work arrangements in Germany?

Walwei

2013

J Labour Market Res

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Since the beginning of the 1990s, the composition of work arrangements has significantly changed. Whereas non-standard work arrangements such as part-time or temporary employment grew over time, standard work lost in importance. However, data from the German Labour Force Survey does-at least for the recent past-not show a clear indication for a much greater speed with respect to changes in the composition of work arrangements. In addition, developments are also driven by a long-term trend. Shift-shareanalyses suggest that shifts in the demographic or industry composition of employment were only of minor importance as a driving force for the trend. This means that factors related to the behaviour of the parties involved have obviously played a decisive role. In this context it is important that Germany is a country with regulations creating incentives for an increased use of nonstandard work arrangements. Of relevance in this context are high social security contributions, a considerable level of employment protection, a stronger activation of unemployed due to recent labour market reforms and a still dominant male bread winner model. Zeiten des Wandels: Was treibt das Wachstum atypischer Erwerbsformen in Deutschland? Zusammenfassung Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre hat sich die Zusammensetzung der Erwerbsformen grundlegend verändert. Während atypische Formen der Erwerbstätigkeit, wie Teilzeitarbeit oder befristete Beschäftigung, an Bedeutung gewannen, verlor das sog. "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" dagegen an Boden. Jedoch legen Daten des Mikrozensus nahe, dass sich das Tempo des Wandels in der jüngeren Ver

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Section: Work Arrangements and Potential Driving Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Times of change: what drives the growth of work arrangements in Germany?

Walwei

2013

J Labour Market Res

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Getting Rich

Keister

2005

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This book is about wealth mobility, how some people get rich while others stay poor. The advantages of owning wealth and the nature of true wealth have long made questions about the wealthy appealing. In recent years, that interest has been amplified by economic changes and rising wealth inequality. Today, although the basic facts about wealth inequality are no longer a mystery, we still know little about who the wealthy are, how they got there, and what prevents other people from becoming rich. We know very little about the process of wealth mobility. This book explores wealth by investigating some of the most basic questions about wealth mobility. How much mobility is there? Has the nature of mobility changed over time? Is entrepreneurship important? How much does inheritance matter? What other factors encourage or prevent wealth mobility, and how do these change over the course of a person's life?

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The Benefits Implications of Recent Trends in Flexible Staff Arrangements

Cited by 20 publications

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Times of change: what drives the growth of work arrangements in Germany?

Times of change: what drives the growth of work arrangements in Germany?

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