Does Deregulation Help? The Impact of Employment Protection Reforms on Youths’ Unemployment and Temporary Employment Risks in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7772024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Gebel (0000-0002-8557-7508, University of Bamberg, corresponding author), Johannes Giesecke (0000-0002-6678-5811, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 486-500 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-7215 • E-ISSN: 1468-2672 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/esr/jcw022 |
| OpenAlex | W2409283440 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 23 |
Rigid employment protection legislation (EPL) has been blamed as the root of youths’ labour market integration problems in Europe. Many European countries have reacted by deregulating employment protection laws, often targeting youths as a group. However, doubts about the effectiveness of EPL reforms have arisen. Against this background, this article investigates whether EPL reforms succeeded in integrating youths into labour markets or whether they were ineffective and just promoted temporary employment as a crucial new social inequality in Europe. Based on two-step, three-level analyses using micro-data from the European Labour Force Survey for 19 European countries for the period from 1992 to 2012, our results show that deregulating the use of temporary contracts increased temporary employment risks of youths but did not reduce (for low-educated young men, even increased) unemployment risks. In contrast, we find some evidence that decreasing the protection of permanent jobs was successful in decreasing risks of inequality/insecurity (in terms of temporary jobs) without affecting the risks of labour market exclusion.
Demographic economics · Deregulation · Economic growth · Economics · Employment protection legislation · Flexicurity · Inequality · Labour economics · Legislation · Market economy · Political science · Social protection · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Citations per year | 5,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |