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• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ilr.12048
• Date: 01 December 2016
• Published date: 01 December 2016

International

Labour

Review

2016 4 > Volume 155/4 December

Contents

477 The growth of precarious employment in Europe: Concepts, indicators

and the effects of the global economic crisis

Tomás GUTIÉRREZ-BARBARRUSA

Since the 1970s, the reorganization of production and neoliberal “exibilization”

have made employment increasingly precarious in the developed economies. Exam-

ining the concept of precarious employment, the author focuses on two of its

dimensions – insecurity and poverty – which he uses to construct a “precariousness

index”. Based on Eurostat data for 1995–2015, he then tracks the growth of pre-

carious employment across the EU-15 and assesses the impact of the 2008 global

economic crisis in this respect. While precarious employment generally increased

after the crisis, this trend was driven more by poverty in the most deregulated la-

bour markets and more by insecurity in the southern European countries.

K:  ,  ,  ,

, EU .

509 The potential effects of labour market duality for countries

in a monetary union

Anna KOSIOR, Michał RUBASZEK and Kamil WIERUS

This article investigates whether the varying prevalence of temporary employment

contracts across Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries can explain their

different unemployment dynamics. Using a database of labour market institutions,

dynamic panel regressions are carried out for 11 eurozone countries for 1995–2013.

Labour market duality – i.e. the co-existence of permanent and temporary contracts

– is found to have a robust and signicant effect on unemployment dynamics: a

high duality rate increases the response of unemployment to output shocks while

decreasing its persistence. The authors suggest that introducing a “single contract”

could improve stability at both eurozone and country level.

K:  ,  , , EMU.

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