Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?

Most of the newly created jobs in Croatia are temporary jobs. This contributes to labor market duality: the growing divide between employees with secure, permanent jobs (referred to as insiders) and those with precarious, temporary jobs (referred t...

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Main Authors:	Rutkowski, Jan J., Oriolo, Claudia, Tomic, Iva, Madzarevic-Sujster, Sanja
Format:	Policy Note
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	TEMPORARY CONTRACT LABOR MARKET TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SEVERANCE PAY LABOR LAW EMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/144921582826132240/Addressing-Labor-Market-Duality-in-Croatia-A-Single-Employment-Contract http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33399

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spelling	okr-10986-333992021-05-25T09:33:09Z Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract? Rutkowski, Jan J. Oriolo, Claudia Tomic, Iva Madzarevic-Sujster, Sanja TEMPORARY CONTRACT LABOR MARKET TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SEVERANCE PAY LABOR LAW EMPLOYMENT Most of the newly created jobs in Croatia are temporary jobs. This contributes to labor market duality: the growing divide between employees with secure, permanent jobs (referred to as insiders) and those with precarious, temporary jobs (referred to as outsiders). Dual labor market is inefficient from both the social and economic perspective. It contributes to inequality, and potentially slows down productivity growth. This Note considers policy measures to address labor market duality. It focuses on the proposal of a Single Employment Contract. By design, the single employment contract eliminates the divide between permanent and temporary contracts. All employment contracts are open-ended with employment protection increasing with seniority. Single Employment Contract is more flexible than existing permanent contracts, but provides workers with more protection than temporary contracts. 2020-03-03T15:42:08Z 2020-03-03T15:42:08Z 2016-06 Policy Note http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/144921582826132240/Addressing-Labor-Market-Duality-in-Croatia-A-Single-Employment-Contract http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33399 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note Europe and Central Asia Croatia
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spellingShingle	TEMPORARY CONTRACT LABOR MARKET TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SEVERANCE PAY LABOR LAW EMPLOYMENT Rutkowski, Jan J. Oriolo, Claudia Tomic, Iva Madzarevic-Sujster, Sanja Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?
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description	Most of the newly created jobs in Croatia are temporary jobs. This contributes to labor market duality: the growing divide between employees with secure, permanent jobs (referred to as insiders) and those with precarious, temporary jobs (referred to as outsiders). Dual labor market is inefficient from both the social and economic perspective. It contributes to inequality, and potentially slows down productivity growth. This Note considers policy measures to address labor market duality. It focuses on the proposal of a Single Employment Contract. By design, the single employment contract eliminates the divide between permanent and temporary contracts. All employment contracts are open-ended with employment protection increasing with seniority. Single Employment Contract is more flexible than existing permanent contracts, but provides workers with more protection than temporary contracts.
format	Policy Note
author	Rutkowski, Jan J. Oriolo, Claudia Tomic, Iva Madzarevic-Sujster, Sanja
author_facet	Rutkowski, Jan J. Oriolo, Claudia Tomic, Iva Madzarevic-Sujster, Sanja
author_sort	Rutkowski, Jan J.
title	Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?
title_short	Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?
title_full	Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?
title_fullStr	Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?
title_full_unstemmed	Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?
title_sort	addressing labor market duality in croatia : a single employment contract?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/144921582826132240/Addressing-Labor-Market-Duality-in-Croatia-A-Single-Employment-Contract http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33399
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Addressing Labor Market Duality in Croatia : A Single Employment Contract?

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