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Men's working-time flexibility and transition to 2nd birth : evidence for couples in Germany

Kałamucka, Agata; Matysiak, Anna; Osiewalska, Beata - 2026

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Is flexible working? : the costs and benefits of flexible working and the drawbacks of one-size-fits-all flexibility mandates

Denham, Annabel; Shackleton, J. R. - 2026

Changes to our way of life during the Covid lockdown accelerated an existing drive for more flexible working opportunities. However, the costs of flexible working requirements have rarely been properly assessed and could extend to undermining growth, increasing unemployment and the rise in...

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Flexible Learning Pathways into Healthcare Occupations

2026

Persistent skill shortages in healthcare are leaving many care needs unmet. This report examines how flexible training and well-defined career pathways can help adults transition into entry-level healthcare roles. Produced jointly by the OECD and the ILO, it examines practices from high, middle...

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Flexibility and social protection in the gig economy : experimental evidence on work location and scheduling

Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Jasmin, Alyssa Farha; Rahman, … - 2026

Debates about gig work often frame flexibility and social protection as substitutes. This paper shows that gig workers value different forms of flexibility in distinct ways and may simultaneously demand greater social protection. Using survey-based discrete-choice experiments among digital...

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Temporary jobs and neoliberalism

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - 2026

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Caring flexibly? : working conditions and the supply of adult care

Costa-Font, Joan; Wang, Wanying - 2026

Although flexible employment policies can help employed individuals balance caregiving and paid work, limited evidence has been devoted to examining the effect of working flexibly on the supply of care to older adults. In this paper, we study the impact of flexible working conditions on the...

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Caring flexibly? : working conditions and the supply of adult care

Costa-Font, Joan; Wang, Wanying - 2026

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Conclusion: comparative insights from a decade of Iberian labour market reforms

Branco, Rui Miguel C.; Marques, Paulo; Carmo, Renato … - 2026

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The perverse effect of flexible work arrangements on informality

Di Porto, Edoardo; Garibaldi, Pietro; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2026

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The perverse effect of flexible work arrangements on informality

Di Porto, Edoardo; Garibaldi, Pietro; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2025

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The perverse effect of flexible work arrangements on informality

Di Porto, Edoardo; Garibaldi, Pietro; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2022

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Flexible working hours : benefit or burden? : a study of occupational differences in five European countries

Stadler, Bettina - 2026

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The German labor market after the long boom : what's next?

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2025

Germany has long been portrayed as the best real-world example of an export-oriented economic model associated with a dualized labor market and welfare state. The success of this export-centered model over the last decades has typically been ascribed to competitiveness due to wage restraint and...

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The complementarity between automation and flexible labour contracts : firm-level evidence from Italy

Traverso, Silvio; Vatiero, Massimiliano; Zaninotto, Enrico - 2025

This study examines the association between firm-level investments in automation technologies and employment outcomes, drawing on a panel dataset of approximately 10,450 Italian firms. We focus on the proliferation of non-standard labour contracts introduced by labour market reforms in the...

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Liberating the labour market : how reforming employment regulation can boost British growth

Shackleton, J. R. - 2025

A free competitive market offers wide opportunities for individuals and businesses and is compatible with the framework of classical liberalism. It is also the best environment for boosting productivity and economic growth. * Theere are uncompetitive elements within the UK's private sector which...

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Deregulating job protection : evidence on productivity and income distribution from Italy

Ciminelli, Gabriele; Franco, Guido - 2025

This paper investigates the impact of job protection deregulation on firms' productivity, leveraging a size-based cutoff in the eligibility criteria of a pivotal 2014 labor market reform in Italy. The reform replaced reinstatement requirements with a progressive compensation system for unjust...

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Exercising strategic flexibility by MNEs during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis

Hejazi, Walid; Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - 2025

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Drivers of flexible labor adoption in nonprofit organizations

Liu, Qiaozhen; Altamimi, Hala - 2025

As nonprofits operate in a competitive environment with limited resources, they constantly seek new ways to optimize their resources. This study investigates factors influencing nonprofits' decision to integrate flexible labor, such as independent contractors, into their workforce. Using...

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Reducing labour market flexibility : a causal inference study on reform in the Netherlands

Patra, Kamalika; Neuteboom, Nora; Kapetanios, George; … - 2025

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Wage productivity gap and labour market flexibility : a study based on indian manufacturing industries during 1973-2020

Dasgupta, Byasdeb; Dutta, Dip - 2025

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DSO observatory 2024 : unlocking flexibility in Europe

2025

The EU energy system faces unprecedented challenges, driven by the energy prices crisis, originating from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the need to accelerate decarbonisation of energy production and consumption. In response, the EU launched the REPowerEU plan and, in 2024, adopted...

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Working-time flexibility and union dissolutions : evidence for couples in Germany

Kałamucka, Agata; Matysiak, Anna; Osiewalska, Beata - 2025

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Foggy social structures : irregular migration, European labour markets and the welfare state

2025 - First edition.

INTRODUCTION 1 Irregular migration as a structural phenomenon PART I IRREGULAR MIGRATION AND EASTERN ENLARGEMENT 2 From irregular migrants to fellow Europeans: Changes in Romanian migratory flows 3 Illegality in everyday life: Polish workers in Dutch agriculture 4 The informal economy of paid...

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Crossing the threshold : employment regulation, firm behaviour and labour market flexibility in Italy

Brugnara, Luca; Camussi, Silvia; Mendicino, Graziella; … - 2025

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Improving the robustness of retail workforce management with a labor flexibility strategy and consideration of demand uncertainty

Porto, Andrés Felipe; Lusa, Amaia; Herazo, Sebastián A.; … - 2025

This article examines the challenge of personnel scheduling problem by incorporating a labor flexibility approach that integrates annualized hours, multiskilled employees, and overtime within an uncertain demand environment. To address this problem, a two-stage stochastic optimization model is...

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Job protection deregulation, productivity and the distribution of income in Italy : Firm-level evidence from the Jobs Act

Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2025

This paper investigates the causal impact of job protection deregulation on firms' productivity, leveraging a size-based discontinuity in the eligibility criteria of a pivotal 2014 labour market reform in Italy. The reform replaced reinstatement requirements with a progressive compensation...

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The role of labor market institutions in shaping euro area monetary policy transmission

Boeck, Maximilian; Glocker, Christian - 2025 - First version: July 2024, this version: October 2025

We examine how labor market institutions shape monetary policy transmission in euro area countries. A theoretical model suggests that higher union density flattens the Phillips curve, amplifying output responses while dampening the inflation effects of monetary shocks. This is empirically...

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Import competition, labor market flexibility, and skill premium : evidence from China based on the dynamic threshold model

Wang, Mingrong; Ma, Longnan - 2025

This paper examines the impact of import competition on skill premium and the moderating effect of labor market flexibility on it, using panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2010 to 2019. A dynamic panel threshold model with instrumental variables is employed to address the endogeneity...

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Is workplace flexibility penalised? : the gendered consequences of working from home for the wages of parents and childless employees in the UK

Pauliks, Johanna Elisabeth - 2025

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Gender differences in preferences for flexible work hours : experimental evidence from an online freelancing platform

Banerjee, Rakesh; Bharati, Tushar; Fakir, Adnan M. S.; … - 2025

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Gender differences in preferences for flexible work hours : experimental evidence from an online freelancing platform

Banerjee, Rakesh; Bharati, Tushar; Fakir, Adnan M. S.; … - 2024

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Labor market institutions and preferences for redistribution

Serra-Sala, Clàudia; Sorribas-Navarro, Pilar - 2025

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External shocks and labor market reforms in autocracies and democracies : evidence from oil price windfalls

Brückner, Markus; Ciminelli, Gabriele; Loayza, Norman - 2024

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External shocks and labor market reforms in autocracies and democracies : evidence from oil price windfalls

Brückner, Markus; Ciminelli, Gabriele; Loayza, Norman - 2024

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Temporary agency employment : a supplement to regular jobs : under certain circumstances

Neumann, Uwe - 2024

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When structural reforms of labor markets harm productivity : evidence from the German IAB panel

Hoxha, Sergei; Kleinknecht, Alfred Herrmann - 2024

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Platform work meets flexicurity : a comparison between Danish and Dutch social partners' responses to the question of platform workers' contract classification

Marenco, Matteo - 2024

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The "new trinity" reform of labour markets in Japan

Zou, Fangmiao - 2024

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Labour-market reform, skill-based exports and employment : some unconventional results under finite change in general equilibrium

Ahuja, Rashmi; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat; … - 2024

This paper highlights the critical role that demand-shock and policy-shock induced finite changes play for the unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market reform that lowers the institutional costs of...

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Macro welfare effects of flexible labor contracts

Carreño, José; Uras, Burak - 2024

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Influence of workplace flexibility on employee engagement among young generation

Lee, Shi Hao; Wei, Chong Chin; Ojo, Adedapo Oluwaseyi - 2024

Workplace flexibility has become increasingly popular and important within the landscape of human resource management especially during and even after the COVID19-pandemic among young working adults. The objective of this study is to identify the influence of four forms of workplace flexibility...

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Labor market institutions and fertility

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2024

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Labor market institutions and fertility

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2021

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Flexible labor contracts, firm-specific pay, and wages

Carreño, José; Huizinga, Harry; Uras, Burak - 2024

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International immigration and labor regulation

Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024

The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...

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Lagging behind : the hysteresis of austerity

Tafuro, Andrea - 2024

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Analysing the share of flexible work forms among persons with different levels of education in the selected EU countries

Devic, Ivona Blazevic; Pozega, Zeljko; Cobovic, Mirko - 2024

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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money

Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024

Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. This is arguably most important in households with (young) children. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends, in part, on the time...

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Bringing labour market flexibilization under control? : marginal work and collective regulation in the creative industries in the Netherlands

Been, Wike; Keune, Maarten - 2024

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Labour market rigidity and firm innovation

Gao, Limin; Anwar, Sajid - 2024

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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labor market reforms trade-off efficiency against job quality?

Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2024

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Work meaning and the flexibility puzzle

De Schouwer, Thimo; Kesternich, Iris - 2024

We study heterogeneity in the prevalence of and preferences for workplace flexibility and work meaning. We show that, internationally, women and parents value flexibility more but do not work more flexible jobs. The gender dimension of this flexibility puzzle is related to differences in...

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Factors shaping the employment outcomes of neurodivergent and neurotypical people : exploring the role of flexible and homeworking practices

Branicki, Layla J.; Brammer, Stephen; Brosnan, Mark; … - 2024

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FDI deregulations and employment

Chen, Yongbing; Hu, Jiawen; Du, Yurui; Zhan, Chaoqun - 2024

We empirically investigate whether employment is affected by foreign direct investment (FDI). Empirical results show that the FDI deregulations promote employment by increasing the job creation rate. In addition to the employment expansion of incumbent firms, the FDI deregulations facilitate the...

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The effect of occupational deregulation on wage premiums

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rammert, Timo - 2024

We analyze the impact of occupational deregulation on the wages of licensed workers. To do so, we exploit a deregulation policy in the German craft sector that removed the master certificate as a requirement for starting a business in about half of the craft occupations. Specifically, we examine...

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Flexible working arrangements and gender equality in Europe

2024

This report gather coherent overview of the literature and data around how flexible working can relate to gender equality patterns in European societies. This report aims to summarise the current state of art in the theory and evidence around flexible working with regards to gender equality,...

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