dc.contributor.author | Osberg, Lars | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-07T12:43:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-07T12:43:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1995 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Osberg, Lars. 1995. "Concepts of Unemployment and the Structure of Employment." Economie Appliquee 48(1): 157-181. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 00130494 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ismea.org/ISMEA/eapp.html | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/34133 | |
dc.description.abstract | Section 1 notes that a continuing reason for dissatisfaction with the economics literature on employment is its focus on the decision-making of workers, rather than that of firms, and its neglect of shifting structures of employment. Section 2 outlines a model of endogenous change in employers' decisions on the structure of employment, in which the rate of unemployment is partly determined by the percentage of firms who follow a casualized "just in time" employment strategy, while the profitability of such a strategy increases as aggregate unemployment increases. Section 3 asks how the vocabulary of analysis of unemployment can be interpreted if firms make structural decisions on employment. Section 4 concludes that increased "labor market flexibility" may largely mean lower average real wages and greater insecurity for workers. | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Economie Appliquee | en_US |
dc.title | Concepts of Unemployment and the Structure of Employment | en_US |
dc.type | article | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 48 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | 157 | en_US |