Institutional arrangements, employment performance and the quality of work

Arbeitspapier

The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the varying institutional configurations by which flexibility is achieved. In order to capture different patterns of flexibility, we differentiate between five types of flexibility which can be combined (external-numerical, internal-numerical, external-functional, Internal-functional, and wage flexibility). Following the dominant analytical perspective in comparative labor market research the indicator is limited to the institutional level (de jure variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment benefit system and active labor market policies, taxation and wage setting) we include further institutions which can be assumed to influence adaptability (education, working-time arrangements and firm-specific vocational training).

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4595

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy ; Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Public Policy ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
• Subject: Labor market institutions ; flexibility ; indicators ; Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung ; Index ; Institutionalismus ; Arbeitsrecht ; Berufsbildung ; Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung ; OECD-Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Eichhorst, Werner ; Marx, Paul ; Tobsch, Verena
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36055
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET