Institutional change and transformations in labour and employment standards

Marie-Christine Bureau and Patrick Dieuaide
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Marie-Christine Bureau: LISE-CNAM, France
Patrick Dieuaide: Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Laboratoire ICEE, France

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2018, vol. 24, issue 3, 261-277

Abstract: Initially employed by lawyers and geopolitical experts, the concept of ‘grey zones’ can be usefully applied to analyse the recent changes on the labour market. It provides a means of bypassing the dualist approaches that contrast waged work and self-employment, insiders and outsiders, or, then again, formal and informal work in a binary way. It provides visibility of the decoherence between the institutions associated with waged status and actual employment practices, and the layering of several different kinds of regulation. The ‘grey zones’ approach thus provides an analytical framework for understanding a wide variety of situations and studying various processes of institutional change, giving the actors of this change their rightful place. Although grey zones are often areas where laws are absent or weak, through these actors they can also give rise to new institutions.

Keywords: Work and employment; grey zones; institutional change; employment norms; labour market; regulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1024258918775573

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