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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and FinancingThis study explores the relationship between precarious employment and unmet healthcare needs among low-skilled migrant workers with E-9 visas in South Korea, addressing health disparities in a rapidly aging society.
Min-Chul Hwang PhD
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Mobility Strategies of Precarious Employees and the Formation of Precarious Habitus [PDF]
Социологический журнал, 2019 This article considers the social mobility trajectories for vulnerable employees involved in precarious employment. The authors define two types of justifying involvement in precarity — forced or voluntary choice.
Irina N. Tartakovskaya +1 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
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Analyse multidimensionnelle de la précarité dans le système urbain français
CybergeoPrecarity is a multidimensional notion that combines economic instability, monetary poverty, and a marginalization from stable employment. Although its manifestations have been examined – particularly within sociology – geographical research has focused ...
Paul Gourdon +5 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Precariousness in employment mediated by digital platforms. Evidence from Europe
Revista de Economía MundialIs precarity inherent to employment when it is mediated by a digital platform, or does employment precarity have other causes? Using the first wave of the European survey on collaborative economy and employment (COLLEEM, hereinafter), we identify ...
María Isabel de Andres +2 more
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Honduras: Labor Precarity in the Salaried Class During the Model of Neoliberal Accumulation
Íconos, 2019 This article analyzes how labor relations have become precarious for the salaried class since the neoliberal model of accumulation in Honduras has been in place.
Mario Enrique Pineda Talavera
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Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town
Africa Spectrum, 2022 This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy.
Henrietta Nyamnjoh +2 more
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2017 This article focuses on a paradigmatic type of knowledge work: informatics. Specifically, it studies the processes of precarity and precariousness taking place in the Argentinian software and information services (SIS) sector.
Andrés Rabosto, Mariano Zukerfeld
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