Labour Market Institutions and Productivity: Labour Utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics)

ISBN 10: 0367444283 / ISBN 13: 9780367444280

Editore: Routledge, 2020

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Titolo: Labour Market Institutions and Productivity:...

Casa editrice: Routledge

Data di pubblicazione: 2020

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This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level characteristic for Western European states. It provides an innovative and enriching take on labour utilisation at large and how various formal labour market institutions can affect the ongoing trend in labour utilisation in a way that is not covered by the extant literature. The impact of labour market institutions on labour market outcomes is analysed throughout 12 chapters, both from a cross-country perspective and in detailed case-studies, by 21 labour market experts from various CEE countries.

Most chapters are based on empirical methods yet are presented in an easy-to-follow way in order to make the book also accessible for a non-scientific audience.

The volume explores three key questions:

• How can labour utilisation be increased by labour market institutions?
• Which CEE countries managed to create a labour market institutional framework beneficial for labour utilisation?
• How should the labour market institutions in CEE countries be reformed in order to increase labour utilisation?

The book argues that the legacy of transition reforms and a centrally planned past is still relevant in explaining common patterns among CEE countries and concludes that increasing the stock of skills accumulated by the employed and improving utilisation of these skills seems to be the first-best solution to increase labour utilisation.

The book will be of interest to post-graduate researchers and academics in the fields of labour economics, regional economics, and macroeconomics as well as scholars interested in adopting an institutional analysis approach. Additionally, due to the broader policy implications of the topic, the book will appeal to policymakers and experts interested in labour economics.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Beata Woźniak-Jęchorek is an associate professor at the Institute of Economics at Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland.

Michał Pilc is an assistant professor at the Institute of Economics at Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland.