cover image: Discussion Paper - No. 2039 October 2024 - Why do flexible work

Discussion Paper - No. 2039 October 2024 - Why do flexible work

10 Oct 2024

This latter point is suggestive of the temporary role of the work from the worker’s perspective, 1Examples include the UK’s new Employment Rights Bill and a Supreme Court ruling on Deliveroo riders’ eligibility for collective bargaining; a bill in the Netherlands proposing the abolition of ZHCs; the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2020 in Australia; and in the US, California Assembly Bill 5, the Gig Is U. [...] The second is the distribution of the worker-level coefficient of variation (CV)—the standard deviation divided by the mean—which has the advantage of being unitless. [...] The key dif- ference is the change in the right-hand side variable of interest, which is now the total number of permanent leavers (measured in hours), and the specifications are now at the job-establishment- week and establishment-week levels, respectively. [...] 23 Figure 12: Proportion of ZHCs vs Local Unemployment Note: The figure presents a bin-scatter plot of monthly probabilities of a workers being on a ZHC at the for The Company against the claimant count divided by the working age population at the Local Authority where the establishment is located. [...] The interpretation of β10 is the percentage increase in the number of applicants if the job is advertised as a ZHC, compared to a permanent posi- tion in the same establishment-job, controlling for establishment-year, job-year, and year-month fixed effects.
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