Labour markets in transition

Titel: Labour markets in transition : balancing flexibility & security in Central and Eastern Europe / Sandrine Cazes; Alena Nesporova. International Labour Office
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Veröffentlicht: Geneva : Internat Labour Office, 2003
Umfang: XIII, 161 S. : graph. Darst.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9221137236
  • Foreword
  • p. v
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xiii
  • 1
  • Introduction: The case for labour market institutions in transition countries
  • p. 1
  • 1.1
  • Labour market flexibility
  • p. 1
  • 1.2
  • Changing labour markets
  • p. 2
  • 1.3
  • Trade-offs and complementarities
  • p. 3
  • 1.4
  • Implications for employment analysis and policy advice
  • p. 4
  • 2
  • Labour market developments in the 1990s: An overview of the transition countries
  • p. 7
  • 2.1
  • Labour market trends: Common features and differences across transition countries
  • p. 8
  • 2.2
  • Factors contributing to cross-country differences in labour market development in transition countries
  • p. 20
  • 2.3
  • Conclusions
  • p. 30
  • 3
  • Changing characteristics of employment
  • p. 31
  • 3.1
  • Sectoral changes in employment
  • p. 31
  • 3.2
  • "Privatization" of employment
  • p. 37
  • 3.3
  • Increasingly flexible forms of employment
  • p. 43
  • 3.4
  • Conclusions
  • p. 51
  • 4
  • Labour market dynamics in the 1990s: A comparative analysis
  • p. 53
  • 4.1
  • Labour turnover in the 1990s
  • p. 53
  • 4.2
  • What do job-tenure data tell us about employment stability?
  • p. 64
  • 4.3
  • Job security versus job stability
  • p. 76
  • 4.4
  • Conclusions
  • p. 83
  • 5
  • The impact of EPL on labour market outcomes: Evidence from transition and Western industrialized countries
  • p. 85
  • 5.1
  • Introduction
  • p. 85
  • 5.2
  • Existing work
  • p. 86
  • 5.3
  • Development of EPL over the 1990s: A cross-country comparison in CEE countries
  • p. 90
  • 5.4
  • Measuring EPL strictness
  • p. 97
  • 5.5
  • Preliminary evidence (bivariate associations)
  • p. 102
  • 5.6
  • Conclusions
  • p. 105
  • Annex 5.1
  • EPL in selected transition countries
  • p. 108
  • 6
  • The role of labour market institutions, social dialogue and labour taxation
  • p. 113
  • 6.1
  • Introduction: Beyond EPL
  • p. 113
  • 6.2
  • Labour market institutions in the late 1990s: Transition versus OECD countries
  • p. 114
  • 6.3
  • Preliminary evidence in transition countries
  • p. 123
  • 6.4
  • Conclusions
  • p. 131
  • Annex 6.1
  • Definitions and data sources
  • p. 133
  • Annex 6.2
  • Test methodology
  • p. 135
  • 7
  • Policy conclusions
  • p. 137
  • 7.1
  • A summary of findings
  • p. 137
  • 7.2
  • Two models of labour management for the transition countries
  • p. 139
  • 7.3
  • Conclusions
  • p. 141
  • Bibliography
  • p. 145
  • Index
  • p. 149
  • List of tables
  • 2.1
  • GDP and employment in transition economies: Average annual growth rates, selected years (percentages)
  • p. 9
  • 2.2
  • Participation rates of population aged 15-64, transition economies, 1990 and 1999 (percentages)
  • p. 12
  • 2.3
  • Participation rates according to age group, transition economies, 1990 and 1999 (percentages)
  • p. 13
  • 2.4
  • Registered unemployment (as a percentage of labour force at end of each year), transition economies, 1994, 1998 and 2000
  • p. 15
  • 2.5
  • Total unemployment, selected transition countries, 1994, 1998 and 2000
  • p. 16
  • 2.6
  • Youth total (LFS) unemployment rate, selected transition economies, 2000 (percentages)
  • p. 18
  • 2.7
  • Composition of population, aged 15-64, according to education level, selected transition economies, 2000 (percentage of total population)
  • p. 25