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Over the past twenty years European labour markets have seen the
simultaneous rise of unemployment and working-time flexibility.
While unemployment generates widespread concern about social
exclusion, the reorganisation of flexible working time has been
greeted with more ambivalence. The concept of transitional labour
markets (TLMs) is an attempt to adress and analyse the factors and
policies that can prevent high levels of umemployment and exclusion
from paid work.
This book adresses three questions:
- Can working-time flexibility integrate more people into paid
employment?
- Can working-time flexibility prevent unemployment?
- Is it possible for the barriers between core and peripheral
employment to become more permeable in the way advocated by the
concept of TLMs?
Drawing on both quantitative longitudinal panel study data and
qualitative case study material, the authors (whose expertise is
drawn from the fields of economics, sociology and law) provide an
original perspective on the nature and implications of TLMs in
Spain, Sweden, Ireland, Britain, Germany, France and The
Netherlands. This will be essential reading for both academics and
policymakers in the field of labour market policy.
Contents
1. Introduction
Inmaculada Cebrián, Michel Lallement and Jacqueline O'Reilly
PART I. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL
ISSUES
2. Working time, social integration and transitional labour markets
Colette Fagan and Michel Lallement
3. Working-time regimes and transitions in comparative perspective
Dominique Anxo and Jacqueline O'Reilly
PART II. LABOUR MARKET TRANSITIONS
4. Transitions between different working time arrangements: A
comparison of Sweden and the Netherlands
Dominique Anxo, Elena Stancanelli and Donald Storrie
5. Moving up or moving out? Transitions through part-time employment
in Britain and Germany
Silke Bothfeld and Jacqueline O'Reilly
6. Transitions through part-time work in Spain and the United
Kingdom: A route into secure employment?
Mark Smith, Inmaculada Cebrián, María A. Davia, Virginia Hernanz and
Miguel A. Malo
7. Peripheral labour in peripheral markets? Mobility and
working-time within transitional labour markets among women in
Ireland and Spain
Inmaculada Cebrián, Victoria Gash, Gloria Moreno, Philip J.
O'Connell and Luis Toharia
PART III. EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS AND
COMPANY PRACTICES
8. Time, lifestyles and transitions in France and Sweden
Dominique Anxo, Jean-Yves Boulin, Michel Lallement, Gilbert Lefevre
and Rachel Silvera
9. Restructuring internal labour markets: Integration and exclusion
in the British and German banking sectors
Jill Rubery, Jacqueline O'Reilly and Silke Morschett
10. Working-time and employment transitions in the British, French
and Dutch health care sectors
Damien Grimshaw, Frans Kerstholt, Gilbert Lefevre and Ton Wilthagen
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ISBN/ISSN: 1-84064-280-7
392 pages
Price: US $110
Price: UK Ł69.95
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