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Research Brief 1: The Index of Precarious work (IPW): A Measure to Track Progress Towards Decent Work

, 2009
The first brief looks at the many sides of precarious work and introduces the Index of Precarious Work (IPW). Many things can come together to make a job precarious.
Landolt, Patricia, Holdring, Luin
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Regulating precarious employment : the case of young Australian retail workers

, 2012
Young workers are highly susceptible to the precarities of external labour markets. They are more likely to be employed in precarious, part-time and insecure work and to lose their jobs in an economic downturn.
Price, R.A., Campbell, I.
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Precarious Employment in Rural Ontario

, 2017
In collaboration with colleagues from around Ontario and OMAFRA, I am pursuing a project reviewing the impacts of precarious employment on the social, emotional and physical health of rural communities in Ontario.
Valencia Gaspard
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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz Labour Market: Some Implications for the National Poverty Reduction Strategy [PDF]

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working poor and precarious workers, and to the existence of multiple labor-related risks faced by specific groups. This analysis is undertaken
Sabine Bernabe, Alexandre Kolev
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Gender, Part-time Employment and Employee Participation in the Workplace: Comparing Australia and the European Union [PDF]

The international trend in the growth and incidence of 'no n-standard employment', and its highly gendered nature, is well documented. For ease of definition, and because of the nature of the available data, we focus upon part-time employment in this ...
Kowalczyk, J., Hodgkinson, A., Pomfret, S., Markey, R.   +3 more
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Association between prevalence and severity of chronic kidney disease and employment status: a nationwide study in Korea

BMC Public Health
Background The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing globally, and understanding the association between CKD and employment status is crucial.
Seoyeong Choi, Suk-Yong Jang, Eunjeong Choi, Yu shin Park   +3 more
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Duration of Non-standard Employment

Non-standard employment is fairly common in Canada, accounting for almost two in five workers aged 16 to 69. Concerns about nonstandard work arise because workers in these jobs tend to have low earnings and are more likely to live in low-income families.
Tourigny, Pierre, Kapsalis, Constantine
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Precarious Employment and Stress

Juan de la Cierva Incorporación fellowship (IJCI-2017-33999) ; ICREA Academia program.
Bolíbar, Mireia||, Belvis Costes, Francesc Xavier||, Jódar Martínez, Pere, Vives, Alejandra||, Méndez, Fabrizio, Bartoll, Xavier||, Pozo, Oscar J.||, Gomez-Gomez, A.||, Padrosa, Eva||, Benach, Joan||, Julià, Mireia||   +10 more
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From insecure to secure employment: changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absence

, 2003
Aims: To determine whether change in employment status (from fixed term to permanent employment) is followed by changes in work, health, health related behaviours, and sickness absence. Methods: Prospective cohort study with four year follow up.
Vahtera, J., Elovainio, M., Ferrie, J.E., Virtanen, M., Kivimäki, M.   +4 more
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Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait

, 2003
'Precarious employment' is a better concept for understanding labour market insecurity than the dominant concept in Canada, 'non-standard work.' We examine dimensions of precariousness between and within mutually exclusive forms of employment. The growth
Zukewich, Nancy, Vosko, Leah F, Cranford, Cynthia J   +2 more
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