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Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection, and Job Content
Author(s) -
Kahn Lawrence M.
Publication year - 2018
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/irel.12209
Subject(s) - discretion , numeracy , reading (process) , labour economics , business , task (project management) , economics , literacy , political science , management , economic growth , law
Using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) data for twenty‐one countries, I study the impact of employment protection laws ( EPL ) on job content. I find that workers’ use of influence, reading, writing, planning, numeracy and information and computer technology skills, and their task discretion, were higher in permanent than in temporary jobs. Moreover, stricter EPL on permanent jobs raised the gap in job content for influence, reading, writing, and planning skills used in permanent jobs versus temporary jobs.