Modes of labor flexibility at firm level: Are there any implications for performance and innovation? Evidence for the Swiss economy

By Spyros Arvanitis. 2005

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Flexible labor and innovation performance : Evidence from longitudinal firm-level data (2010, background): “Arvanitis (2005) reports mixed results. In one of his specifications, he finds that temporary work has a positive impact on innovation, which he ascribes to the need to hire specialists on a temporary basis for the R&D process. When using part-time work as another indicator of flexible labor, he fin”
The Dynamics of Labour Flexibility: Relationships between Employment Type and Innovativeness (2011, unknown): “On the one hand, functional flexibility practices like multi-skilled teams may contribute to a wider dispersion of skills and knowledge that make the deployment of individual workers to particular tasks more adaptable and, as a consequence, may positively influence innovativeness (Arvanitis, 2005; K”
Little innovation, many jobs. An econometric analysis of the Italian labour productivity crisis (2010, background): “Arvanitis (2005) found a positive relationship between functional flexibility and labour productivity for a sample of Swiss companies, but an insignificant effect of external flexibility.”
Human Resource Management Practices and Innovation (2012, background): “dataset on approximately 1,400 Swiss firms for the period 1998-2000, Arvanitis (2005) presents”
Is flexible labour good for innovation? : Evidence from firm-level data (2014, result): “…and/or empirical support to the hypothesis that the rigid corporatist labour markets of ‘Old Europe’ may actually favour innovation and labour productivity growth.1 Some studies, however, argue that the opposite should hold2 and a single study reports insignificant results (Arvanitis, 2005).”