Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

By Lawrence M. Kahn. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central Europe follow more interventionist policies than Canada, the UK and the US. Vulnerability to external market forces and ethnic homogeneity may explain such differences. While the interventionist model appears to reduce wage inequality and raise job security for incumbent workers, it also often relegates new entrants (disproportionately women, youth and immigrants) and the less skilled to temporary jobs or unemployment.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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• Institutions and the prevalence of nonstandard employment (2015, background): “It is therefore not surprising that the number of studies on the effects of labor market and welfare state institutions on the prevalence of nonstandard employment has constantly grown in recent years (e.g. Kalleberg, 2000, 2009; Giesecke, 2009; Leschke 2009; Kahn, 2012).”