Flexible wage contracts, temporary jobs, and firm performance: Evidence from Italian firms

M Battisti, G Vallanti - … Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study focuses on the effects of decentralized wage schemes and temporary forms of
employment on firm performance. The effect of monetary incentives on workers' effort and …

Non-standard employment and labour force participation: a comparative view of the recent development in Europe

G Schmid - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents–in a new way of examination and portrayal–the extent and changes of
nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self …

The European world of temporary employment: Gendered and poor?

W Van Lancker - European Societies, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Departing from growing concerns about in-work poverty and the proliferation of flexible
employment, we investigate the association between temporary employment and poverty in …

Buy flexible, pay more: the role of temporary contracts on wage inequality

A Albanese, G Gallo - Labour Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour
market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new …

The implications of temporary jobs on the distribution of wages in i taly: An unconditional ivqte approach

G Bosio - Labour, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Using I talian data, this paper investigates the wage implications of temporary jobs across
the whole pay profile using unconditional quantile regression (UQR) models. Results clearly …

Polarisation of non-standard employment in Europe: Exploring a missing piece of the inequality puzzle

J Horemans - Social Indicators Research, 2016 - Springer
The rise in non-standard employment inspired many scholars to study the social
consequences of these new employment forms. Most research focusses on individuals …

Types of temporary employment: an 8-year follow-up of labour market attachment

S Ojala, J Nätti, L Lipiäinen - Social Indicators Research, 2018 - Springer
This study aimed to find out how heterogeneous temporary employment is reflected in later
labour market attachment. Using data from Finnish Quality of Work Life Surveys in 1990 …

[PDF][PDF] Non-Standard Employment in Europe: Its Development and Consequences for the European Employment Strategy.

G Schmid - German Policy Studies/Politikfeldanalyse, 2011 - guentherschmid.eu
The last decades have seen an erosion of the traditionally defined “standard employment
relationship” through part-time work, fixed-term contracts, temp-agency work and self …

Insecure, sick and unhappy? Well-being consequences of temporary employment contracts

V Carrieri, C Di Novi, R Jacobs… - … the impact of change in the …, 2014 - emerald.com
This paper investigates the influences of temporary contracts along several dimensions of
well-being (physical and mental health, self-assessed health and happiness) for young …

The promise of flexicurity: Can employment and income security mitigate the negative effects of job insecurity?

M Svetek - Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Flexicurity is an integral part of the EU Employment Strategy. Flexicurity promises that it is
possible to simultaneously provide organisations with greater flexibility and offer workers the …