Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection, and Job Content

Lawrence Kahn

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2018, vol. 57, issue 3, 469-538

Abstract: Using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for twenty†one countries, I study the impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. I find that workers’ use of influence, reading, writing, planning, numeracy and information and computer technology skills, and their task discretion, were higher in permanent than in temporary jobs. Moreover, stricter EPL on permanent jobs raised the gap in job content for influence, reading, writing, and planning skills used in permanent jobs versus temporary jobs.

Date: 2018
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