The impact of temporary employment on productivity

Lisi, Domenico; Malo, Miguel Á.

doi:10.1007/s12651-017-0222-8

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“…This has very important implications. Temporary contracts have been found to have a negative effect on productivity (Lisi and Malo 2017). Furthermore, there is evidence that more insecure jobs are associated with higher frequency and severity of injuries (Amuedo-Dorantes 2002;Guadalupe 2003;Fabiano et al 2008;Bender et al 2012;Picchio and Van Ours 2017) and, more generally, higher risk of poor health, of future sickness absences, and of larger use of health services (László et al 2010).…”

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Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

Galizzi

Leombruni

Pacelli

2019

J Labour Market Res

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We investigate the long term employment outcomes of Italian injured workers over a time period when the country introduced policy reforms that increased labor market flexibility but reduced job security. Using an employeremployee database matched with injury data, we observe that both before and after the reforms almost one-fourth of injured workers were no longer employed 3 years after their "first" return to work. We note a slight decrease in this share after the reforms (from 24 to 22%) while we find a decline in workers' job security as measured by their probability of re-employment in permanent contracts. We use multinomial logit estimates to study how liberalization reforms were associated with a changing role of individual, firm, and injury characteristics in shaping long-term employment outcomes of injured workers after their recovery period. Heterogeneity analyses show that low wage employees, women, immigrants, and individuals who suffered a more severe injury were penalized more. Pre-injury individual characteristics became stronger predictors of long-term employment than firms' characteristics. In particular, we find that the advantage provided by working in larger firms was significant before the liberalization reforms, but disappeared afterward, while the advantage provided by human capital became more relevant after the liberalization.

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Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

Galizzi

Leombruni

Pacelli

2019

J Labour Market Res

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“…The contractual staff is made to work six to eight hours and are paid a meager amount without any remarkable perks and allowances [ 14 ]. This leads to a careless attitude and lack of commitment and dedication [ 14 , 15 ]. These staffs are also devoid of social security cover under different legislative provisions, such as the Employees' Provident Fund Act 1952, the Employees' State Insurance Act 1948, the Workmen's Compensation Act 1923 and the Maternity Benefit Act 1961 [ 14 ].…”

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The organizational challenges in the management of the revised national tuberculosis control program of India: an overview

Yadav¹,

Rawal²

2020

Pan Afr Med J

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The developing world is facing a serious problem of tuberculosis (TB) since ages. The condition is really profound in resource-constrained countries. The situation in some of the high TB burden countries is so grave that there are huge numbers of TB patients and deaths due to TB. TB control in most of the countries is done by the national TB control programs. In India, this is popularly known as the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP). The RNTCP comes under the umbrella of the national health mission. The main components of RNTCP are directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) and DOTS-Plus. The effective and adequate implementation of the RNTCP is the most effective solution to control the ever growing cases of TB. The present situation, as detailed in the WHO global annual TB report, with ever-rising cases of various categories of TB is really scary and demands prompt attention. In this paper, the authors highlight the important issues related to the RNTCP in India. The main motto of writing this paper was to address the challenges associated with the organizational structure of the national TB control program of India and to suggest solutions for the same. The authors believe that these challenges could pose a serious threat to the efforts aimed at TB elimination from India. Besides, this paper will serve as a tool to modify and/or to formulate new guidelines for the betterment of the program. Also, the challenges detailed here are usually common in the other high TB burden countries of the world and this will help the program managers worldwide.

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“…This structural change in employment composition is the optimal response of employers, who are in the search for lower labour costs and more flexible contract modalities, to shocks to the relative prices of different types of labour as we show below and other types of shocks. However, it poses a challenge as a larger number of temporary workers might affect firm productivity in the long run (see Castellani et al, 2017;Lisi and Malo, 2017). Temporary contracts have been associated with fewer incentives to establish solid labour relations, training, etc.…”

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‘Disemployment’ effects of the minimum wage in the Colombian manufacturing sector

Arango¹,

Rivera²

2020

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In a labour demand approach, we present evidence of the effect that variations of the real minimum wage has on the formal employment of the industrial sector. The sample includes all industrial establishments of the Annual Manufacturing Survey between 2000 and 2015 that were always active during the whole period. We differentiate the workforce between skilled and unskilled by types of contracts (permanent and temporary). The real wage paid to workers by plants is divided into two components: one linked to the minimum wage and other that mirrors the plants' own-policy remuneration. The labour demand functions, conditional and unconditional, that we estimate are consistent with the theory and the previous literature. The evidence suggests that increases of the real minimum wage destroy employment fundamentally of unskilled labour, both permanent and temporary mainly in plants with less than 100 workers dedicated to production. The long-term elasticities of labour demand to the real minimum wage that we estimate in multiple specifications are between-0.615 and-0.715. Thus, an increase of 1 percent of the minimum wage reduces, ceteris paribus, labour demand about 0.7 percent within a period between one and two years. The real wage elasticity is between-0.358 and-0.718 while the sizeable output elasticity, about 1.6, suggests a high cyclicality of labour demand.

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The impact of temporary employment on productivity

Cited by 44 publications

References 74 publications

Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

The organizational challenges in the management of the revised national tuberculosis control program of India: an overview

‘Disemployment’ effects of the minimum wage in the Colombian manufacturing sector

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