Attitudes towards job protection legislation: Comparing insiders and outsiders in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Svalund, Jørgen; Saloniemi, Antti; Vulkan, Patrik

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“…In some cases, LMIs themselves can act as quasi-unions. It would be also interesting to study the conditions under which the support provided by LMIs may lead to the development of labour market policies which address the demands of non-standard workers (Svalund et al, 2016). Further empirical is necessary in order to test the relevance of our grid in other institutional contexts and to inform the discussion around EU labour market reforms in a comparative perspective (Hall and Soskice, 2001).…”

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Who takes care of non-standard career paths? The role of labour market intermediaries

Lorquet

Orianne

Pichault

2017

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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As flexible career paths become more common in European labour markets, how to combine the flexibility required by non-standard work with new patterns of security is the focus of political debate. Some European Union (EU) countries have launched radical labour market reforms, while in others such reforms remain limited. This paves the way for bottom-up solutions developed by private and non-profit labour market intermediaries in order to support the job transitions of non-standard workers. We map these initiatives through a multidimensional grid and explore the extent to which they contribute to renewed regulation of modern labour markets. We outline two ideal-typical approaches. The first extends internal labour markets to triangular employment relationships by considering workers as ‘quasi-employees’. The second involves more disruptive solutions by treating non-standard workers as ‘quasi-self-employed’.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Who takes care of non-standard career paths? The role of labour market intermediaries

Lorquet

Orianne

Pichault

2017

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…an outsider position) is a general risk for all wage earners. Interestingly, recent research has found that workers in both insider and outsider positions favour firm employment protection regulation, at least in a Nordic context (Svalund et al, ).…”

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Employment protection regulation, trade unions and tenure of employment: An analysis in 23 European countries

Berglund

Furåker

2016

Industrial Relations Journal

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This article focuses on the relationship between employment protection regulation (EPL), trade unions and tenure of employment. A main hypothesis is that EPL strictness tends to prolong tenure, because rigorous rules imply that remaining with the same employer gives more job security. The role of unions can be expected to be similar. These assumptions are related to issues regarding dualisation in the labour market. Data used are the European Working Conditions Survey 2010—including 23 countries and more than 18,500 employees—combined with national‐level data on EPL, unemployment, union density and collective bargaining coverage. The analyses reveal that EPL strictness and bargaining coverage are associated with longer tenure. The same goes for having an employee representative in the workplace. The institutional variables work through interactions with individual‐level variables. For example, the impact of age, which is strongly linked to tenure, increases with stricter EPL and higher bargaining coverage.

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“…deregulation) than permanent workers. Svalund, Saloniemi and Vulkan (2016) analyse preferences for EPL in Nordic countries and observe that insiders are even more prone to demand deregulation than outsiders.…”

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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? Revisiting the insider–outsider theory*

Ronconi

Kanbur

López-Cariboni

2023

International Labour Review

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The "insider-outsider" perspective, which dominates the discourse on labour regulations, argues that protective regulations hurt the less well-off outsiders but are kept in place in the interests of the insiders, who are covered by the regulations. Thus, if the insider-outsider divide were as depicted in the standard representation, outsiders would be strongly against regulations. Our evidence that a large majority of outsiders in developing countries in fact support protective labour regulations calls for a rethink of the sharp insider-outsider divide. We suggest a number of avenues for exploration, including income-sharing, transitions, fairness and employer power in labour markets.

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Attitudes towards job protection legislation: Comparing insiders and outsiders in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Who takes care of non-standard career paths? The role of labour market intermediaries

Who takes care of non-standard career paths? The role of labour market intermediaries

Employment protection regulation, trade unions and tenure of employment: An analysis in 23 European countries

Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? Revisiting the insider–outsider theory*

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