Flexibilité des contrats et demande de travail en Belgique
Benoît Mahy
Temporary jobs have spread in an important way during the
nineties, especially on the Belgian labour market. From a labour demand point
of view, we first stress on the reasons why they might reduce labour adjustment
(firing) costs and to a lesser extent other labour costs, but why they might
also lower labour productivity. Net effects of temporary jobs are then
estimated on dynamic labour demand, assuming that firms are in a monopolistic
competition market structure and face quadratic and symetric adjustment costs.
The relation is estimated on a panel of 5551 firms observed during the period
1996-2000, using the Blundell and Bond GMM estimator. Our results suggest that
higher flexibility through temporary jobs significantly favours the adjustment
process but does not influence employment level.
Keywords :
Models with panel data (C23), employment determination, demand for labour (J23), labour contracts (J41).
• Introduction
• Davantage de contrats temporaires…
— Réduirait les coûts d’ajustement du facteur travail et
augmenterait la vitesse d’ajustement…
— Réduirait quelque peu les coûts salariaux…
— Réduirait quelque peu la productivité…
• Cadre d’analyse
— Concurrence monopolistique
— Demande statique de travail
— Processus d’ajustement
— Impact de la flexibilité des contrats
• Résultats
— Base de données et technique d’estimation
— Résultats d’estimation
• Conclusion
• Références