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Unmet Healthcare Needs in Unstable Jobs: Perspectives from Low-Skilled Migrant Workers in South Korea

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
This 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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Analyse multidimensionnelle de la précarité dans le système urbain français

Cybergeo
Precarity 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, Matthieu Delage, Julie Fromentin, Benoit Conti, Sophie Baudet-Michel, Laurent Terral   +5 more
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City as lens: (re)imagining youth in Glasgow and Hong Kong [PDF]

, 2017
In recent years, a paradox has emerged in the study of youth. On the one hand, in the context of the processes of globalization, neoliberalism and precarity, the patterning of leisure and work for young people is becoming increasingly convergent across ...
Batchelor, Susan, Fraser, Alistair, Ling, Leona Li Ngai, Whittaker, Lisa   +3 more
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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
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Job Precarity, Contract Work, and Self-Care

Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2019
Job precarity is an active and real issue in the libraries. This piece will explore job precarity as it applies libraries and the financial and emotional strain attached to it, with some strategies for self-care while applying to precarious work and in ...
Sajni Lacey
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
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Precariousness in employment mediated by digital platforms. Evidence from Europe

Revista de Economía Mundial
Is 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, Emilio Congregado, María Concepción Román   +2 more
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Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
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Stepping Stone or Trap? Contextualising Precarity as a Sector and Age Phenomenon in the Greek Labour Market

Young, 2023
Precarity has been consolidated as a central concept in theoretical and political discussions around labour market(s) and labour relations and conditions. Moreover, it has strongly been linked with specific sociodemographic groups, prominently with youth.
Dimitris Parsanoglou, Glykeria Stamatopoulou, Maria Symeonaki   +2 more
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Exclusionary employment in Britain’s broken labour market [PDF]

, 2016
There is growing evidence of the problematic nature of the UK’s ‘flexible labour market’ with rising levels of in-work poverty and insecurity. Yet successive Governments have stressed that paid work is the route to inclusion, focussing attention on the ...
Aldridge H, Bailey N, Bailey N, Barnes M, Berghman J, Blond P, Burchardt T, Byrne D, Coote A, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Eurofound, Eurofound, Gallie D, Gordon D, House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee, Kenway P, Levitas R, Levitas R, Millward N, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Pantazis C, Platt L, Scottish Government, Skinner C, Standing G, Thompson S, Tomlinson M   +32 more
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