Employer‐oriented labour market policies in Sweden: Creating jobs and the division of labour in the public sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-95
Author(s):  
Daniel Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
The Public

Een nieuw en flexibel personeelsbeleid in de lokale besturen in Vlaanderen ?

Res Publica ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Trui Steen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employment ◽  
Personnel Policies

Personnel management in localgovernment in Flanders bas undergone some major reforms during recent years. We examine the purposes and the extent of these reforms. Also, the new personnel management in Flemish local government is evaluated in terms of flexibility. The Flemish civil service can be considered as an Internal Labour Market. The rigidity which characterises the Internal Labour Market in local government in Flanders is shown by the fact that local government lacks discretion in elaborating the personnel statute, which still constitutes the basis of personnel management. However, the thesis that the public sector employment policy is too rigid has to be nuanced. The civil service is familiar with irregular forms ofemployment. Infact, in Flemish local government only half of all personnel are employed according to a statute.Despite some constraints on the development of more flexible personnel policies, it is still possible to find opportunities which provide hope for the development of new and modern personnel management strategies in local government.

Race at Work

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-65
Author(s):  
Henrice Altink
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Making extensive use of census data, this chapter sets out changes over time in the race and colour profile of the labour market. It shows that dark-skinned Jamaicans made considerable advances, especially in the public sector, but that even long after independence they were still largely absent from some fields and in others rarely found at senior levels. It will be argued that the stratification of the labour market by colour was largely the result of race-neutral practices, such as educational qualifications and other hiring and promotion criteria; disadvantage accumulated over time and across racial domains; and government inaction, which was partly triggered by political partisanship and economic factors.

scholarly journals Labour market flows: Accounting for the public sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 101770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idriss Fontaine ◽  
Ismael Gálvez-Iniesta ◽  
Pedro Gomes ◽  
Diego Vila-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labour Market Flows

Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manos Matsaganis
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Income Support ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Funding Opportunities ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
The Unemployed

This chapter reviews the changes in labour market policies under conditions of harsh austerity and mass unemployment in Greece in 2010-2015. Three policy areas are covered: income support to the unemployed, active labour market policies, and employment protection legislation. We find that labour market policies in Greece have failed to rise to the challenge of harsh austerity and mass unemployment. A legacy of backwardness, neglect, and general lack of sophistication proved difficult if not impossible to overturn under the emergency conditions prevailing since 2010. Moreover, as regards the less controversial aspects of the structural reforms demanded by the country’s creditors under the bailout agreements (for instance, supporting job creation, upgrading the Public Employment Service, and improving the absorption, as well as the effectiveness of EU funding), the domestic actors’ preferred approach of passively adjusting to European funding opportunities, rather than genuinely puzzling for solutions, left no room for a more constructive engagement. The adverse effects of the resulting handicap are there for all to see.

scholarly journals The controversial nature of workfare programmes

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
Imola Cseh Papp ◽  
Erika Varga ◽  
Zoltán Szira ◽  
László Hajós
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Expenditure ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Public Work ◽  
The Times ◽  
Controversial Nature

Abstract According to the OECD, active employment policies include all social expenditure that are directed at improving the chances of finding a job and income generation (except education). Active labour market policies are around to assist in enhancing labour market flexibility at the times of economic changes. Their key components are the so-called activation strategies that act as typical prerequisites of benefitting from unemployment security/support systems in every EU country. The workfare concept lies behind the public work programmes. There are serious professional debates whether public work can primarily be seen as a ’compulsion and work test’ or, rather, as an opportunity of entering the primary labour market. The available efficiency analyses unanimously state that public work forms have the biggest role in testing willingness to work and the obligatory nature is the strongest of all active labour market policies. Research also indicates that public work reintegrates only few people back to the primary labour market and the majority are restrained from seeking a job and other income generating activities. There are several reasons for and against public work and opinions differ. The paper summarises the benefits and drawbacks on the basis of international and Hungarian analyses.

scholarly journals Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismael Galvez-Iniesta ◽  
Pedro M. Gomes ◽  
Diego Vila-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labour Market Flows

scholarly journals Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution: The Tunisian perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Marouani ◽  
Phuong Le Minh ◽  
Michelle Marshalian
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Influence Function ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Driver

In this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context. The methodology consists of various decompositions and regressions, including recentred influence function regressions, based on Tunisian labour force surveys from the past 20 years. Tunisia’s labour market during the period of investigation is characterized by a decreasing earnings inequality following the fall of education premia, and an asymmetric wage polarization led by the increase of the lowest wages. After the Revolution, the routine task index increased significantly because of the rise of the share of routine agricultural and service workers. Although evidence shows that the routinization had a role in the evolution of the wage structure, it is not the main driver. Its effect was crowded out by employment and wage policies in the public sector.

scholarly journals Organisational factors and under-reporting of occupational injuries in Sweden: a population-based study using capture–recapture methodology

2021 ◽  
pp. oemed-2020-107257
Author(s):  
Cecilia Orellana ◽  
Bertina Kreshpaj ◽  
Bo Burstrom ◽  
Letitia Davis ◽  
Paolo Frumento ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Injury Severity ◽  
Occupational Injuries ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
National Register ◽  
The Public ◽  
Capture Recapture ◽  
Organisational Factors

ObjectiveTo estimate the magnitude of under-reporting of non-fatal occupational injuries (OIs) by different organisational factors in Sweden for the year 2013.MethodsCapture–recapture methods were applied using two data sources: (1) the national OI register and (2) records from a labour market insurance company. To assure comparability of data sources, the analysis was restricted to the public sector and private companies with at least 50 employees. OIs were matched using personal identification number and reported injury dates (±7 days). Organisational factors were obtained from the national labour market register and injury severity (no healthcare/only outpatient/hospitalised) from the National Patient Register. Total number of OIs and ascertainment by data sources were estimated assuming data source independence.ResultsThere were an estimated 98 493 OIs in 2013. Completeness of reporting OIs to the national register and to the insurance company was estimated at 73% and 43%, respectively. No report to either source was estimated at 15 000 OIs (~15%). Under-reporting to the national register differed by selected organisational factors, being higher among organisations in the public sector, those with more females, with a younger workforce and with a higher proportion of immigrants. Overall under-reporting was more common in agriculture (19.7%), other services (19.3%), commerce and hospitality (19.1%), health (18.4%) and education (18.4%). Under-reporting decreased as injury severity increased, with little variations across sectors of economic activity.ConclusionsResults suggest considerable under-reporting of OIs in Sweden and differential under-reporting by organisational factors. Results are relevant for official estimates of burden and for setting priorities for workplace safety and prevention.

scholarly journals Employment and Unemployment Trends in the Baltic Countries and Statistical Regions of Latvia, 1998–2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Einārs Ulnicāns
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
The Baltic

The aim of the paper is to analyse the number and proportion of employees, unemployment rates and theirterritorial trends in Latvia, and to compare them with those in Estonia and Lithuania. The paper analyses the number ofemployees at the main job, its proportion in the private sector, and unemployment rates in the Baltic countries and statisticalregions of Latvia. In 2000–2007, employment and its proportion in the private sector was on the increase. In 2008, an upwardtrend in Estonia and Lithuania started to decrease, but in Latvia number of employees and its proportion in the private sectoralready had dropped. In 2009, the number of employees continued to decline. The unemployment rate grew from 1998 to2000 and from III quarter 2008 to I quarter 2010. From 2001 to II quarter 2008, during an economic boom, it decreased to aminimum. A faster economic growth means a higher proportion of employees in the private sector; however, during theeconomic crisis, it creates more instability in the labour market than in the public sector, especially at the beginning. As thecrisis deepens, unemployment in the private sector begins to stabilize; however, it increases in the public sector.

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