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Causes and Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility

Description du projet

Un examen approfondi de l’évolution du monde du travail

Le monde du travail évolue et ne montre aucun signe de ralentissement. Plus récemment, il a été affecté par la pandémie de Covid. Toutefois, la mondialisation et les progrès technologiques ont eux aussi eu un impact considérable sur le marché moderne du travail. Le projet LABFLEX, financé par le CER, s’intéressera aux régimes de travail flexible, comme l’externalisation, la sous-traitance, la programmation flexible et les emplois à rémunération flexible, qui sont devenus la «nouvelle normalité». Le projet examinera les causes et les conséquences de la flexibilité du marché du travail. Il tentera d’expliquer la hausse de l’inégalité des salaires. Les conclusions dresseront un tableau de l’offre et de la demande du marché du travail, facilitant une étude de la flexibilité dans les contrats de travail.

Objectif

Globalization and technological change have transformed the workplace and the organization of labor. At the core of these major developments is the degree of flexibility in the labor market. Alternative work arrangements, e.g. outsourcing, sub-contracting, flexible scheduling, and flexible pay jobs have become a common feature of labor markets across the globe. While most economists would argue that labor market flexibility facilitates reaping the benefits of globalization and technology growth, these developments can have far reaching consequences for the division of resources in society. Indeed, the recent decades have witnessed a sharp rise in wage inequality. LABFLEX is motivated by these developments and seeks to investigate the causes and consequences of labor market flexibility.

LABFLEX raises a series of questions: Do differences in job contracts reflect shifts in worker preferences, or do they mirror advances in technology that facilitate gains from organizing job tasks differently? What are the impacts of flexibility in job contracts on wage inequality and gender wage gaps? Are workers being compensated for the adverse work conditions or the higher income risks, or do changes in job contracts reflect changes in the sharing of rents between workers and firms? How do labor market institutions affect flexibility? And what is the role of labor market policies?

To answer these questions, LABFLEX will for the first-time link register data to large-scale experimental evidence on workers’ stated preferences for a wide array of work and pay arrangements, and an exhaustive full-text corpus of vacancies with information on job attributes. This will allow drawing a very detailed picture of both the supply and the demand side of the labor market, facilitating a study of flexibility in job contracts. Combining these data with experimental and structural methods, LABFLEX will provide new evidence on the causes and consequences of labor market flexibility.

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Régime de financement

HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC Grants

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(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) ERC-2021-STG

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Institution d’accueil

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 500 000,00
Coût total
€ 1 500 000,00

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