Youth employment security and labour market institutions: A dynamic perspective

Abstract

The shift of policy focus from job security to employment security calls for a more dynamic measurement of young people's labour market performance. This article uses data on monthly employment status trajectories and job duration to investigate young Europeans' employment security around five years after they finished education. The authors show that almost 40 per cent of "job-insecure" individuals actually enjoy employment security -i.e. they are able to re-enter paid employment rapidly after losing their job. The article highlights the need for policy measures to enhance employment security, and the positive role that stricter temporary employment protection, and ALMP expenditure, could play.

Diversity of youth policy regimes and early job insecurity – towards an integrated approach

“…While previous studies have shown negative effects of EPL on unemployment (see Berloffa et al, 2016), more recent studies have usually found no or only slightly negative effects (Avdagic, 2015;Breen, 2005;Noelke, 2016;Scarpetta, 2014). One assumption is that the influence of EPL is more apparent in the composition of unemployment than in the level of unemployment (Barbieri and Cutuli, 2015).…”

“…In most continental countries there has been a strategy since the late 1980s of weakening EPL for workers on the secondary labour market (reducing protection for those with temporary contracts), while maintaining high EPL for core workers. This has created labour market segmentation and may have given rise to new forms of economic and social inequality (Barbieri and Cutuli, 2015;Berloffa et al, 2016;Chung, 2016;Gebel and Giesecke, 2016;Noelke, 2016). There is a general assumption and also evidence that this has led to the substitution of permanent jobs with temporary jobs, as well as reduced mobility from temporary to permanent employment (see Barbieri and Cutuli, 2015;Chung, 2016;Gebel and Giesecke, 2016;Noelke, 2016).…”

“…People living in countries in Southern Europe have much worse labour market chances than people in Central and Northern Europe (Barbieri and Cutuli, 2015). Other research has shown that changing temporary contracts can lock young people into the segmentation trap (see Barbieri and Cutuli, 2015;Berloffa et al, 2016).…”

Unemployment and Age-based Labor Market Segmentation

“…Věkovou segmentací se za pomoci různých přístupů zabývají empirické studie (pro přehled viz Berloffa et al, 2016;srov. rovněž Albert et al, 2008;Tatsiramos, 2010nebo Kelly et al, 2014.…”

“…Tato na první pohled pozitivní tendence je však spojena s nízkou vymiňovací mzdou mladých nezaměstnaných, přijímáním nestabilních, nevýznamných a hůře placených zaměstnání. Z toho vyplývá, že se ve skutečnosti opět jedná o projev marginalizace mladých lidí na trhu práce (Kelly et al, 2014;Berloffa et al, 2016). 2 Uvedenou specifiku mladých lidí potvrzují i studie, které se zaměřují na stanovení hodnot všech pravděpodobností přechodu mezi stavy na trhu práce v uzavřeném Markovově systému.…”