The Transformation of Employment Regulation in Greece: Towards a Dysfunctional Liberal Market Economy?

Kornelakis, Andreas; Voskeritsian, Horen

doi:10.7202/1025032ar

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“…For instance, institutional environments have changed in several countries as a result of the recent global financial and eurozone crises (Psychogios et al, 2014). For instance, Greece's previously 'rigid' labour market has become more flexible in recent years (Kornelakis and Voskeristian, 2014), resulting in an economy that adheres more closely to a fragmented business system with a flexible labour market than a fragmented business system with a rigid labour market.…”

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Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

Allen

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The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Syed Imran Saqib Alliance Manchester Business School AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to Prof. Wilkinson and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and guidance on previous versions of this paper. AbstractComparative institutional analyses have added much to our understanding of HRM in different countries, providing powerful arguments against the need for flexible labour markets to boost economic performance. However, existing research has tended to downplay the possibility that variation within countries may result in a well-protected core of workers that grows ever smaller alongside increasing numbers of precarious workers. We draw on data from the World Economic Forum and the European Company Survey to examine how institutions influence establishments' use of temporary workers in 29 European countries plus Turkey. We analyse the data using 1) principal components analysis to categorize the countries in our analysis, 2) a two-step cluster analysis to draw up groups of establishments by their use of temporary workers, and 3) a multilevel logistic regression to examine how the 2 institutional setting of establishments and key establishment characteristics interact to influence workplaces' use of temporary workers. We show that institutional characteristics shape the prevalence of temporary workers in the 28 European Union member states plus FYR Macedonia and Turkey; however, institutions are not deterministic and important variation in the use of temporary workers depends upon the interaction between establishment characteristics and the establishment's business system.3

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Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

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“…This makes this exploration even more relevant and timely, since some Southern European countries -such as Greece and Portugal-were obliged to abruptly deregulate their ER systems to improve competitiveness (Kornelakis and Voskeritsian, 2014;Molina, 2014). The main aims of the bailout packages were to 'expose workers to the full force of global labour market competition, requiring…”

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How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?

Kornelakis

Veliziotis

Voskeritsian

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Abstract:The recent Eurozone crisis has reinvigorated neoliberal policies and brought to the fore an academic and policy debate over the deregulation of employment relations' institutions 'in the name of competitiveness'. In the context of this debate, we ask the following question: have firms with employment relations institutions been less able to improve productivity during the crisis? We consider this question by examining data from the European Company Survey. We also look into different models of capitalism to gauge whether there are context-specific institutional effects that may mediate firm-level outcomes. Contrary to the dominant neoliberal discourse, we do not find any strong evidence that employment relations institutions are negatively associated with productivity increases. Instead, we find that certain high performance work practices are positively and significantly associated with productivity increases across EU-15 and in particular institutional contexts.Taken together these results challenge the neoliberal 'low road' policies that are focused on dismantling employment relations institutions and suggest shifting the attention towards context-sensitive 'high road' policies and practices.

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“…peri‐urban, rural and industrial parks) owing to the synchronous effects of a geographically rescaled market, and state and global forces. The small size of average businesses in Greece (in terms of EU standards), scarcity of technological innovation, continuous productivity losses owing to EU‐scale uneven power geometries, and lack of liquidity and credit necessary for facilitating capital‐intensive production eventually pushed domestic industry out of profitable markets (Hadjimichalis, ; Shaikh, ; Polyzos et al ., ; Kornelakis and Voskeritsian, ; Psycharis et al ., ; Kallioras et al ., ). The already severe pressure of the 1990s intensified further when Greece entered the Eurozone.…”

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“…Regarding the geographical scale at which the above dynamics unfold, parts of academia interpret space as fragmented, paying most attention to the national level, hence the centrality of the state in their analyses (Kornelakis and Voskeritsian, ; Mavroudeas, ). Harvey proposes a more dialectical approach, where capital flows are central, without disregarding the role of the state, which is gradually being transformed through upgraded international and supranational institutions (Harvey, ) that are directly involved in the production of space and the regulation of commodity and labour markets.…”

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Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession: Capital Switching and Labour Underutilization in the Greek Capital Metropolitan Region

Gourzis¹,

Gialis²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The article offers a fresh, empirically grounded look at the spatialities of crisistriggered employment forms--a largely overlooked issue in contemporary critical geography literature. Specifically, it discusses the interconnection between investment flows from manufacturing to the built environment (capital switching) and underemployment in urban metropolitan regions to substantiate its impact on emerging spatial fixities. The article, which is based on an empirical analysis informed by a radical political economy, investigates changing fixed capital formations in Greece over an extended period prior to and during the recession, from 1995 to 2012. It traces the evolution of part-time waged work in the capital metropolitan region of Attica (Athens) vis-à-vis the rest of the country's regional labour markets, focusing on the polarized 2005-2012 period and the demise of the construction industry. The article highlights that 'disrupted' capital switching that occurred in Greece, closely associated with recalibrated sectoral priorities and institutional interventions, resulted in the uneven sprawling of underemployment. Our findings offer insight into how the dismantling of spatial fixes within core metropolitan regions of the southern European Union (and beyond) are connected to labour surplus and successive slumps in manufacturing and construction. The article closes by calling for new theorizations of contemporary urban regional unevenness and its spatiotemporal fixities, which account for the role of changes in labour turnover time.

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The Transformation of Employment Regulation in Greece: Towards a Dysfunctional Liberal Market Economy?

Cited by 26 publications

References 35 publications

Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

Establishments’ use of temporary agency workers: the influence of institutions and establishments’ employment strategies

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?

Dismantled Spatial Fixes in the Aftermath of Recession: Capital Switching and Labour Underutilization in the Greek Capital Metropolitan Region

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