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Operationalization of Employment Protection Legislation and Implications for Substantive Results: Example of Perceived Job Insecurity and Temporary Employment Risk
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract Almost all comparative research on the effects of employment protection legislation of regular
employees (EPLR) is based on the index of the OECD. This study argues that this index is methodologically flawed and proposes a new EPLR index, following a theory-driven formative index construction appr... view more
Almost all comparative research on the effects of employment protection legislation of regular
employees (EPLR) is based on the index of the OECD. This study argues that this index is methodologically flawed and proposes a new EPLR index, following a theory-driven formative index construction approach. To demonstrate the implications using the OECD EPLR index versus the new index, we use two empirical applications: First, the effects of EPLR on perceived job insecurity, using multi-level models with data from the European Social Survey, the European Working Condition Survey, and the European Quality of Life Survey. Secondly the temporary employment risk for new hires, using multi-level models with data from the European Labour Force Survey. Whereas the results based on the OECD EPLR index significantly deviate from the hypotheses in the literature, the results using the new EPLR index is compliant with the hypotheses in the literature. This demonstrates higher criterion validity of the theory-driven new EPLR index and also calls for replications of previous research that is based on the index of the OECD.... view less
Keywords
collective agreement; protection against dismissal; statuary regulation; protection of employee rights; employment contract; index; job security; OECD; unemployment
Classification
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
European Social Survey (ESS) 2004 and 2010; European Working Condition Survey (EWCS) 2005, 2010, and 2015; European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) 2007, 2012, and 2016; EU Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS) 1992-2013
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
City
Köln
Page/Pages
39 p.
Series
GESIS Papers, 2020/19
ISSN
2364-3781
Status
Published Version; reviewed