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Laziness or liberation? Labor market policies and workers' attitudes toward employment flexibility
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Hipp, Lena and Anderson, Christopher (2015) Laziness or liberation? Labor market policies and workers' attitudes toward employment flexibility. International Journal of Social Welfare, 24 (4). pp. 335-347. doi:10.1111/ijsw.12155 ISSN 1369-6866.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12155
Abstract
This study examined the relationship between labor market policies and employees' willingness to make concessions in order to avoid unemployment. In contrast to previous work that analyzed the behavior of employers and the unemployed, we examined how labor market policies influence employees' flexibility. Multilevel modeling techniques were applied to a data set that was created by combining individual‐level data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) with country‐level information from the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development. The main findings of our analyses were that dismissal protection and unemployment benefits do make a difference to employees' willingness to make concessions, and that the relationships between the willingness to make concessions and labor market policies are nonlinear. Substantively, these nonlinear relationships suggest that employees' willingness to be flexible is negatively associated with both “too much” and “too little” social protection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Social Welfare | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||
ISSN: | 1369-6866 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 October 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 24 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 335-347 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ijsw.12155 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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