Arbeitspapier

Globalization and Protection of Employment

Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests this hypothesis in a panel of 28 OECD countries from 1985 to 2003, differentiating between three dimensions of globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it increases regulation in the segment of limited-term contracts. We find the economic one to drive deregulation for the regularly employed, but the social one to be responsible for the better protection of workers in atypical employment. We offer political economy arguments as explanations for these differential effects.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: KOF Working Papers ; No. 238

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Economic Integration
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Labor Standards: Working Conditions
Labor Standards: Workers' Rights
Comparative Studies of Countries
Thema
Globalization
international trade
integration
employment protection
labor standards
unions
cross-country analysis
panel data analysis
Globalisierung
Außenhandelsliberalisierung
Arbeitnehmerschutz
Arbeitsmarktflexibilität
Ungeschützte Beschäftigung
OECD-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fischer, Justina A. V.
Somogyi, Frank
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2009

DOI
doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005899621
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fischer, Justina A. V.
  • Somogyi, Frank
  • ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute

Entstanden

  • 2009

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