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Park, Sung-Joon
- Journal of Labour Economics
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- v.33 no.3
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- pp.25-46
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- 2010
The outstanding performance of some nations in Central and Northern Europe such as Denmark and the Netherlands in the labor market is much indebted to their policy to help labor flexicurity. In this study, the possibility of replicating the Dutch or Danish performance in the labor market is explored in case of adopting such policy in the 22 OECD countries. If implementing the flexicurity policy in the 22 member countries of the OECD leads to strong performance in the labor market, this policy can be globally shared as universal labor policy to provide a win-win situation among the labor, management and the authorities on the matter, paving the way for replacing the Anglo-Saxon policy characterized by high flexibility and low security, or the European alternative with a lower level of flexibility and a higher level of security. According to findings from our research, flexicurity policy can not produce any tangible accomplishments in the labor market by only itself. Therefore, we may safely reach the conclusion that flexicurity policy has a limited positive influence on the labor market of some northern or central European countries. Given the striking difference in inherent conditions between such European countries and OECD countries, it is not sensible for OECD nations to adopt labor policy in the direction of flexicurity.
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Choi, Koangsung;Lee, Jieun;Choe, Chung
- Economic Analysis
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- v.25 no.3
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- pp.1-29
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- 2019
This paper examines the impact of a dual labor market structure on labor productivity using unbalanced panel data from 29 OECD member countries between 1990 and 2015. By applying a variety of regression models on the panel data (e.g., a pooled regression, a fixed effects model and a GMM), we explore how changes in worker-type composition among temporary, permanent and self-employed workers contribute to productivity growth. While it appears that our results differ slightly, depending on the econometric models, overall an increase in the share of permanent workers leads to a relatively higher increase in productivity growth. On the other hand, it is also seen that the effects of the share of temporary workers on labor productivity are considerably lower than that of permanent and self-employed workers. To sum it up, our findings indicate that an increase in temporary workers could have an adverse effect on labor productivity.

박선화;모리나
- Journal of Sinology and China Studies
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- v.79
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- pp.355-382
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- 2019
This study analyzes the characteristics of labor market policy and the Chinese flexicurity model by applying the concept of flexicurity to China's labor market entering the New Normal-era. China is changing from a growth strategy that pursues balance and stability to a growth strategy that emphasizes efficiency and diligence amid slow economic growth and changes in socio-economic structure. However, this is not a return to the neoliberal labor market, but a perspective of building a labor market that simultaneously guarantees flexibility and stability. Although China follows the flexicurity model strategy that started in the European Union, it presents the Chinese flexicurity model including the policy with the Chinese characteristics. Therefore, this study suggests that China has pursued a flexicurity strategy that combines and balances labor market flexibility and social security stability after entering the New Normal-era, suggesting that it is building a unique Chinese model.
https://doi.org/10.18077/chss.2019.79..018 인용

이원호
- Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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- v.5 no.2
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- pp.187-207
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- 2002
This study investigates the wage determination process of regional labor markets in order to understand the regional dimension of labor market processes in Korean metropolitan cities. Since the financial crisis in late 1997, the interplay between labor market restructuring such as unemployment and skill polarization and income disparity has been shaped by the labor market process in the metropolitan cities. This is also closely related to the fact that both industrial restructuring and expanding information technologies in the metropolitan region have reshaped the labor demand structure and finally resulted in structural unemployment due to skill mismatch and spatial mismatch and wage inequality across different occupations. In addition, since wage determination process clearly has a regional dimension, wage determination and its influence on income profile in a certain regional labor market need to be understood by investigating its labor market characteristics including labor supply and demand structure, industrial changes, changing unemployment, etc. This is why labor market policy as a regional policy needs to be redefined and it can be much enhanced by geographical investigation on regional labor market.
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