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Abstract

In the most recent institutional and academic literature, both work flexibility and worker security are understood as concepts with a multifaceted nature. Flexibility of a work relationship involves aspects concerning hiring and firing costs, the wage, the time schedule, the organisation of work and the place where it is carried out. In turn, the degree of security that workers enjoy depends on all those factors that affect their capability to provide themselves with a decent standard of life through participation to the labour market or by accessing public income-maintenance schemes. No theory is able to provide indubitable insights on whether enhancing the dimensions of work flexibility affects positively or negatively the security of workers. Hence, this is basically an empirical matter.

Abstract

In the most recent institutional and academic literature, both work flexibility and worker security are understood as concepts with a multifaceted nature. Flexibility of a work relationship involves aspects concerning hiring and firing costs, the wage, the time schedule, the organisation of work and the place where it is carried out. In turn, the degree of security that workers enjoy depends on all those factors that affect their capability to provide themselves with a decent standard of life through participation to the labour market or by accessing public income-maintenance schemes. No theory is able to provide indubitable insights on whether enhancing the dimensions of work flexibility affects positively or negatively the security of workers. Hence, this is basically an empirical matter.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of figues and tables iv
  4. Acknowledgements vi
  5. Notes on the authors vii
  6. Worker security and the spread of non-standard work 1
  7. Flexibility and security in contemporary labour markets 15
  8. Labour policy developments in Italy in comparative perspective 33
  9. Flexibility and employment security: an analysis of work careers 61
  10. Flexibility and wage dynamics 79
  11. Flexibility and social security 95
  12. A monetary measure of worker (in)security 131
  13. Conclusions 147
  14. The WHIP database 155
  15. Main work contracts in italy 161
  16. References 169
  17. Index 183
The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility
This chapter is in the book The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781847429087-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of figues and tables iv
  4. Acknowledgements vi
  5. Notes on the authors vii
  6. Worker security and the spread of non-standard work 1
  7. Flexibility and security in contemporary labour markets 15
  8. Labour policy developments in Italy in comparative perspective 33
  9. Flexibility and employment security: an analysis of work careers 61
  10. Flexibility and wage dynamics 79
  11. Flexibility and social security 95
  12. A monetary measure of worker (in)security 131
  13. Conclusions 147
  14. The WHIP database 155
  15. Main work contracts in italy 161
  16. References 169
  17. Index 183
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