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Measuring Employment Security in Europe Using Surveys of Employers[Note 1. The views expressed represent the opinions of the authors ...]
Author(s) -
Morgan Julian,
Genre Veronique,
Wilson Caroline
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.00195
Subject(s) - dimension (graph theory) , index (typography) , business , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , computer science , mathematics , world wide web , pure mathematics
Using results from surveys in which employers were questioned about their freedom to shed staff, we develop a measure of employment security in Europe. We seek to identify which institutional factors are correlated with the responses of employers and find that they appear to reflect the strength of legal restrictions and trade unions and the prevalence of atypical employment. Our results are used to compile an index of employment security that has both a temporal and a cross‐country dimension.