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Flexible working and precariousness
2018This concluding chapter discusses work flexibility and security for young people. The balance of flexibility and security for labour market participants is a perennial challenge for policy-makers. Young people tend to accumulate negative flexibility outcomes in that they have more limited contractual security, and a greater risk of working on non ...
Raul Eamets +7 more
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Sweden: Precarious work and precarious unemployment
2009The aim of this chapter is to describe and analyse the prevalence and the forms of precarious work, and what we call ‘precarious unemployment’, in Sweden, calling attention to differences between women and men. It considers developments mainly from the beginning of the 1990s until today. We concentrate on two main forms, namely temporary employment and
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American Behavioral Scientist, 2012
This article examines nonstandard or precarious workers in Taiwan since 2000. It traces the origin of nonstandard work back to increasing pressures faced by business in global competition and financial crises. Its emergence was also accompanied by the decline of the traditional informal labor sector and the increase of unemployment.
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This article examines nonstandard or precarious workers in Taiwan since 2000. It traces the origin of nonstandard work back to increasing pressures faced by business in global competition and financial crises. Its emergence was also accompanied by the decline of the traditional informal labor sector and the increase of unemployment.
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Precarious work and unemployment in Europe
2017This chapter draws upon several key ideas which situate the precarious nature of work in Europe, showing how marginalised groups become stigmatised and routinely exploited in terms of gender; age; nationality and disability. It argues that Europe is entering an 'age of insecurity', in which there are undependable forms of employment and risky working ...
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American Behavioral Scientist, 2013
Precarious work, characterized by the uncertainty and unpredictability of employment, is well established in Thailand. This article examines the expansion of new forms of precarious work in Thailand with particular attention to the post–Asian economic crisis period. This is done through an examination of the currently available data.
Kevin Hewison, Woradul Tularak
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Precarious work, characterized by the uncertainty and unpredictability of employment, is well established in Thailand. This article examines the expansion of new forms of precarious work in Thailand with particular attention to the post–Asian economic crisis period. This is done through an examination of the currently available data.
Kevin Hewison, Woradul Tularak
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American Behavioral Scientist, 2012
Workers in India are becoming increasingly precarious in spite of its significant economic growth during the past two decades. The extent of informalization and casualization, used as proxies for precariousness, can be deduced from government sources and shows that the size of the informal sector not only constitutes almost 90% of the working ...
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Workers in India are becoming increasingly precarious in spite of its significant economic growth during the past two decades. The extent of informalization and casualization, used as proxies for precariousness, can be deduced from government sources and shows that the size of the informal sector not only constitutes almost 90% of the working ...
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Exploring the performance implications of precarious work
Journal of Operations Management, 2021Frank Wiengarten +2 more
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