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Non‐Standard Employment in Irish Manufacturing: Do Firm Characteristics Matter?
Author(s) -
Görg Holger,
Killen Lynn,
Ruane Frances
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00085
Subject(s) - irish , indigenous , economics , business , focus (optics) , labour economics , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , optics , biology
Non‐standard or atypical employment in Irish manufacturing more than doubled between 1987 and 1995. This paper attempts to analyse empirically the nature of non‐standard employment in Ireland using plant‐level data for 1995. We focus on firm characteristics as explanatory factors. Our econometric results indicate that there are significant differences in the use of atypical employment between small and large firms, and between indigenous and foreign‐owned firms.