Labour market deregulation, 'flexibility' and innovation
基于对英国企业的调查，研究了企业使用的灵活用工、人力资源管理和产业关系做法与其创新活动的关系，发现放松管制鼓励的“低端”灵活性做法与创新负相关。
Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human resource management techniques, and industrial relations systems and, on the other hand, the innovative activities of those firms. Our results suggest that the sort of ‘low road’ labour flexibility practices encouraged by labour market deregulation—short-term and temporary contracts, a lack of employer commitment to job security, low levels of training, and so on—are negatively correlated with innovation.