TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring variations in employment practices in the emerging economies of Europe
T2 - assessing the impact of foreign ownership and European integration
AU - Sahadev, Sunil
AU - Demirbag, Mehmet
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - Few studies have assessed the impact of European Union (EU) integration on the emerging economies of Europe, especially with regard to employment practices. In this study, we focus on three aspects of employment practices and assess whether EU integration has lead to any differences between the emerging economies aligned to the EU and those that remain out of the EU fold. This comparison is quite valid because the emerging economies that we compare have all had a similar background in terms of their economic systems. We use a large World Bank database to compare domestically owned and foreign-owned firms separately. The results show that, while there is some level of divergence between the two blocs of countries in terms of the percentage of temporary employees and education level of employees, in terms of the percentage of skilled workers employed, however, there is no divergence between firms in the two blocs of countries.
AB - Few studies have assessed the impact of European Union (EU) integration on the emerging economies of Europe, especially with regard to employment practices. In this study, we focus on three aspects of employment practices and assess whether EU integration has lead to any differences between the emerging economies aligned to the EU and those that remain out of the EU fold. This comparison is quite valid because the emerging economies that we compare have all had a similar background in terms of their economic systems. We use a large World Bank database to compare domestically owned and foreign-owned firms separately. The results show that, while there is some level of divergence between the two blocs of countries in terms of the percentage of temporary employees and education level of employees, in terms of the percentage of skilled workers employed, however, there is no divergence between firms in the two blocs of countries.
KW - emerging economies
KW - European economies
KW - employment
U2 - 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00183.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00183.x
M3 - Article
VL - 21
SP - 395
EP - 414
JO - Human Resource Management
JF - Human Resource Management
SN - 0090-4848
IS - 4
ER -