Stéphane Carcillo, Alexander Hijzen, Stefan Thewissen
{"title":"The limitations of overtime limits to reduce long working hours: Evidence from the 2018 to 2021 working time reform in Korea","authors":"Stéphane Carcillo, Alexander Hijzen, Stefan Thewissen","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12743","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12743","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018–2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working-hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52. We apply a difference-in-difference approach in which we take advantage of the stepwise implementation of the reform by firm size using individual-level data. We present three main findings. First, the introduction of the 52-h limit reduced but far from eliminated the incidence of working more than 52 h. Second, there is some evidence that the introduction led to a reallocation of working hours, with more employees shifting from working fulltime to working overtime within the new limit (41–52 h). Third, and more tentatively, this reallocation more likely took place within firms to account for fewer overtime hours worked by their employees, rather than within households to compensate for any income effects. Overall, our results show that a lower statutory limit can help to lessen a long working-hour culture, but is an insufficient measure by itself to fully eradicate it.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 1","pages":"98-126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12743","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135375031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verna Alcalde-González, Ana Gálvez-Mozo, Alan Valenzuela-Bustos
{"title":"Social movement unionism in Spain's feminized precarious service sector: Criticism, cooperation and competition","authors":"Verna Alcalde-González, Ana Gálvez-Mozo, Alan Valenzuela-Bustos","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12742","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12742","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Social movement unionism’ (SMU) has been suggested as a suitable strategy for union renewal in Spain, yet the literature on union renewal and SMU has two major shortcomings: (1) a lack of bottom-up studies, and (2) a lack of dialogue between industrial relations and social movement research. To redress these shortcomings, we make three contributions in this article: first, we provide evidence on the current opportunities for SMU in Spain's feminized precarious service sector; second, we apply a bottom-up intersectional approach to the study of SMU; and third, we bridge the research on industrial relations and on social movements by adopting a relational framework that looks at both union and non-union actors as key actors for union renewal. Our results show a landscape of co-existence, conflict, cooperation and competition between union and non-union actors, including established unions, radical grassroots unions and emerging forms of collective representation; however, if we are to develop SMU as a strategy for union renewal in post-Great Recession Spain, then there is still room for promoting deep coalition building between unions and novel forms of worker collectivism, as well as developing intersectional politics to reach non-traditional membership groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 1","pages":"154-173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12742","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41407340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Job satisfaction and employer-sponsored training","authors":"Vasilios D. Kosteas","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12741","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12741","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines whether participation in employer-sponsored training has a causal impact on job satisfaction by accounting for individual fixed effects, individual-by-employer fixed effects and controlling for promotions in a sub-sample of the data to address the endogeneity of participation arising from within employer job changes. The estimates show a consistent, positive effect of participation in employer-sponsored training on job satisfaction. Conversely, participation in other types of training does not have a significant impact upon job satisfaction. Additionally, participation in employer-sponsored training has a strong, negative correlation with turnover even while controlling for job satisfaction. Training does not exhibit a lasting effect of either job satisfaction or turnover.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"771-795"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41389530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saverio Minardi, Carla Hornberg, Paolo Barbieri, Heike Solga
{"title":"The link between computer use and job satisfaction: The mediating role of job tasks and task discretion","authors":"Saverio Minardi, Carla Hornberg, Paolo Barbieri, Heike Solga","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12738","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12738","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study focuses on the consequences of the use of computerized work equipment (hereafter: computer use) on the content and quality of work. It investigates, first, the relationship between computer use and both job tasks and task discretion and, second, their mediating role for the relationship between computer use and job satisfaction. With our German-UK comparison, we contribute to the long-standing debate on the upskilling/de-skilling nature of the use of technology and its repercussions on the quality of work. We analyse data from the Skills and Employment Surveys for the UK and the BIBB/BAuA Employment Surveys for Germany using structural equation modelling. In line with the literature on routine-biased technological change, we show that computers are complementary to the performance of less routine and more abstract cognitive tasks and that this relationship is conducive to a higher level of task discretion and job satisfaction in both countries. Accounting for differences in job tasks performed, we find a negative direct effect of computer use on both task discretion and job satisfaction in the United Kingdom but not in Germany. Our results indicate that the ultimate effect of computer use on both task discretion and job satisfaction depends on the institutional contexts in which technology is introduced.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"796-831"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12738","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43549483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement by Christian O. Paiz, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023, xii + 399 pages. ISBN 978-1-46967-214-4, £34.29","authors":"Braham Dabscheck","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12740","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 2","pages":"476-478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47906648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two paths towards job instability: Comparing changes in the distribution of job tenure duration in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2014","authors":"Xavier St-Denis, Matissa Hollister","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12733","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12733","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study provides novel evidence on trends in job stability in the United Kingdom and Germany, two capitalist economies with distinct sets of institutions and labour market reform trajectories. While we find evidence of an increase in short-term jobs for men in both countries, we also find important differences in the overall patterns of change in the distribution of job tenure duration. The United Kingdom follows a masked instability pattern with opposite job stability trends for men and women. On the other hand, we find evidence of a polarization of the job tenure distribution among men and women in Germany. These findings are partly consistent with expectations from the dualization literature, emphasizing a growing segmentation of the labour market between insiders and outsiders. More generally, this study highlights the existence of multiple paths towards increased job instability that appear to be rooted in institutional differences.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"723-751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44807065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now By R. Iversen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781439922378, $29.95, paperback.","authors":"Stan De Spiegelaere","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12739","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 2","pages":"474-475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48432800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How state influence on project work organization both drives and mitigates gendered precarity in cultural and creative industries","authors":"Valeria Pulignano, Deborah Dean, Markieta Domecka, Lander Vermeerbergen","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12737","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12737","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article develops an understanding of gendered precarity in project work by considering how the transfer of risk from employer to worker is shaped by the contextual pressures of state policy and the organization of the industrial field. The focus is the organization of project work as a condition underpinning the shifting of this risk in a mature field of precarious employment, the cultural and creative industries (CCIs). Our empirical exploration in Film/TV in the UK and Germany, and Dance in Sweden and the Netherlands, examines the dynamic interplay between state policy domains (cultural, social and regulatory), industry-level funding bodies or ‘transaction organizers’ and the cultural processes of CCI project networks. We argue that state-led influences both drive and mitigate the transfer of risk in project work as gendered, racialized and classed. Our framework contributes to broadening employment literature on risk and the disadvantaging capacity of networks to hoard opportunities in project-based labour markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 2","pages":"313-335"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45259726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employer associations in Italy: Trends and economic outcomes","authors":"Bernardo Fanfani, Claudio Lucifora, Daria Vigani","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12735","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12735","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyses the representativeness of employer associations in Italy, using unique firm-level data with information on employers' affiliation and their characteristics. We document that a persistent decline in affiliation rates to employers' associations has occurred during the last two decades. We show that affiliated companies are positively selected, as they tend to be larger, older, more likely to be located in richer regions, to be export and innovation oriented, and more likely to provide training. Using longitudinal data and regression decomposition techniques, we show that larger firms have been more affected by the decline in affiliation rates over time. Finally, we show that the level of representativeness of employers' associations has a weak positive effect on collective bargaining occupational wage minima settled by these organizations in national industry-wide collective contracts after a negotiation process with trade unions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 2","pages":"206-232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12735","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44590035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemporary Employers’ Organizations: Adaptation and Resilience By Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier (eds.) London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367611941£130 (hardback), £35.09 (ebook)","authors":"Melanie Simms","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12734","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 2","pages":"464-465"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42761495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}