Exuberant Proclivity toward Non-Standard Employment: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data
| Autor: | Chiara Pollio, Fabio Landini, Alessandro Arrighetti, Eleonora Bartoloni |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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non-standard employment
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Labour economics Strategy and Management 05 social sciences SH1_11 SH1_10 span of control Economica firm heterogeneity Feature (computer vision) Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Business 050207 economics Span of control Diffusion (business) managerial resources 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | ILR Review. 75:1024-1053 |
| ISSN: | 2162-271X 0019-7939 |
| Popis: | In most industrialized countries, temporary and non-standard forms of employment have become a pervasive feature of the labor market. At the firm level, however, their diffusion is less uniform than expected. While some firms exhibit high propensity to use non-standard labor, others make no use of it. The most conventional explanations (market uncertainty, production regimes, competitive pressure) fail to account for such heterogeneity. In this article, the authors develop an alternative explanation that links non-standard employment to the firm-specific availability of managerial resources: Whenever the latter are relatively scarce, firms make larger use of non-standard labor to reduce coordination and operating costs. Using a linked employer–employee panel of manufacturing firms from the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy), the authors provide empirical support for this explanation. The result is robust to different estimation strategies and controlling for alternative drivers of non-standard employment. This finding suggests that the use of non-standard labor is motivated by the firm’s needs to compensate for specific managerial scarcities. |
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