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Problems of Fit: Changing Employment and Labour Regulation

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This paper indicates key issues in identifying and assessing change in the employment relationship. It explores various challenges that the changing shape of employment poses for both legal regulation and regulation provided through collective bargaining. It suggests different rationales for seeking a better fit and discusses various adjustments and changes to achieve this. Finally, I argue that problems of fit (misfit), and the need for adaptation to which this gives rise, are relevant also to the study of industrial relations.

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  • Linda Dickens, 2004. "Problems of Fit: Changing Employment and Labour Regulation," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 42(4), pages 595-616, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:brjirl:v:42:y:2004:i:4:p:595-616
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2004.00332.x
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    1. Marsden, David, 1999. "A Theory of Employment Systems: Micro-Foundations of Societal Diversity," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198294221.
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    3. Fenwick, Colin F. & Howe, John & Marshall, Shelley. & Landau, Ingrid, 2007. "Labour and labour-related laws in micro and small enterprises : innovative regulatory approaches," ILO Working Papers 994038143402676, International Labour Organization.
    4. Heidi Gottfried, 2008. "Pathways to Economic Security: Gender and Nonstandard Employment in Contemporary Japan," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 88(1), pages 179-196, August.
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