Les gains de la flexibilité d'emploi pour les entreprises : le travail à temps partiel et de courte durée

Roux, Sébastiên

doi:10.3917/rpve.462.0117

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“…It also seems reasonable to assume that bigger firms can use technological innovations to specialise tasks and to recruit a lowerskilled FTC or AW labour force in order to minimise their user costs of labour. In the context of French firms, Roux (2007) also observes a positive relationship between the relative use of flexible labour contracts, referring to part-time employment in this case, and the firm size.…”

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“…Obviously, the use of FTCs and AWs is not only determined by long‐run considerations. Stigler (1939), quoted by Roux (2007), defines flexibility as a way for a firm to minimise additional costs induced by small shocks around output optimal level. Shocks and the use of flexibility measures should therefore be positively correlated.…”

Section: Firms Characteristics and The Use Flexible Contractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Work organization, labour contracts and employment

Dhyne

Mahy

2012

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose -To ease adjustments in the labour market, many countries have softened their legislation since the 1970s by introducing flexible labour contracts or by making their use easier. The purpose of this paper is to document labour management of temporary contracts during the last 20 years in Belgium, compared to the situation in its neighbouring countries. The authors investigate the determinants of the use of flexible labour contracts and the consequences of their introduction on labour dynamics. Design/methodology/approach -A dynamic Probit is considered to model the use of fixed term labour contracts (FTCs) and standard dynamic labour demand equations are used to test the impact of labour contracts on the labour adjustment at the firm level, using a panel of around 8,000 firms during the period 1998-2005. Findings -The results indicate that some firms follow labour management based on a core (indefinite term contracts -ITCs) and a peripheral component (FTCs) and manage temporary contracts on a "permanent" basis, from a long run perspective. Estimates also confirm a much faster temporary contracts employment adjustment, while ITCs adjustment does not depend on whether firms employ FTCs. ITCs short-term employment elasticity with respect to wages suggests that workers protection against redundancies is strengthened when firms manage work organisation with both types of contracts. In contrast to ITCs, FTCs are used to meet unexpected demand shocks. Originality/value -This paper contributes to the growing literature on the impact of the introduction of new flexible contracts on the labour demand at the firm level.

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Work organization, labour contracts and employment

Dhyne

Mahy

2012

International Journal of Manpower

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“…Under the assumption that the values for ( pt -1)PT/L and ( ft -1)FT/L are "small," we can simplify Equation 1 by the following approximation: 5 2 One exception is a French study by Roux (2007) that examined the effect of part-time labor shares relative to full-time labor shares on firms' value added. This study does not focus on a homogeneous workforce, however, which complicates identification of the part-time employment effect.…”

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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Künn-Nelen¹,

Grip²,

Fouarge³

2013

ILR Review

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In this paper, we analyze whether firms' share of part-time employment affects productivity in service sector firms. We find that firms with a large part-time employment share are more productive than firms with a large full-time employment share. Additional analyses show that part-time employment enables firms to have a more efficient allocation of labor. First, firms with part-time workers can bridge the gap between operating hours and a fulltime working week. Second, part-time employment makes it possible to cushion peak hours by enabling firms to deploy more workers during peak hours than during opening hours with relatively low customer demand. Our findings suggest that part-time employment is beneficial for service-sector firms that face fluctuations in customer demand during opening hours. JEL-Codes: J24, L23, L25

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“…A related literature examines to what extent the performance of firms (measured through productivity, profitability or employment indicators) depends on their practices with respect to labour contracts (Roux, 2007). These practices are influenced by the institutional context regulating the overall strictness of temporary and permanent contracts (OECD, 2004).…”

Section: Work Organization and Performancementioning

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Work organization, performance and health: introduction

Mahy

Rycx

2012

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on work organization, performance and health. Design/methodology/approach: The authors provide a general review of the literature and describe the main findings of the papers appearing in this special issue. Findings: This issue provides new evidence regarding the impact of work organization (essentially defined in terms of payment methods, teamwork, workforce age structure and labour contracts) on performance (measured through employment, productivity and sickness absenteeism indicators). It also sheds more light on the determinants of workers' health by gender, with particular attention to working conditions and mobbing. Originality/value: The papers collected in this special issue provide some fine examples of recent work at the crossroads of health and personnel economics. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Les gains de la flexibilité d'emploi pour les entreprises : le travail à temps partiel et de courte durée

Cited by 4 publications

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Work organization, labour contracts and employment

Work organization, labour contracts and employment

Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?

Work organization, performance and health: introduction

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