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- Title
Laziness or liberation? Labor market policies and workers' attitudes toward employment flexibility.
- Authors
Hipp, Lena; Anderson, Christopher J.
- Abstract
This study examined the relationship between labor market policies and employees' willingness to make concessions in order to avoid unemployment. In contrast to previous work that analyzed the behavior of employers and the unemployed, we examined how labor market policies influence employees' flexibility. Multilevel modeling techniques were applied to a data set that was created by combining individual-level data from the International Social Survey Program ( ISSP) with country-level information from the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development. The main findings of our analyses were that dismissal protection and unemployment benefits do make a difference to employees' willingness to make concessions, and that the relationships between the willingness to make concessions and labor market policies are nonlinear. Substantively, these nonlinear relationships suggest that employees' willingness to be flexible is negatively associated with both 'too much' and 'too little' social protection.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT policy; EMPLOYEE attitudes; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); CONCESSION bargaining; UNEMPLOYMENT; MULTILEVEL models; PREVENTION
- Publication
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 4, p335
- ISSN
1369-6866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijsw.12155