work—that is, employment situations that differ from the traditional model of a stable, full-time job. Under the standard employment model, a worker has one employer, works full year, full time on the employer’s premises, enjoys extensive statutory benefits and entitlements, and expects to be employed indefinitely ( ECC 1990; Schellenberg and Clark 1996; Vosko 1997). Work that differs from the standard is described in several different ways, ‘non-standard ’ and ‘contingent ’ being two commonly used terms. Non-standard is used widely in Canada (Krahn 1991, 1995), contingent in the United States (Polivka and Nardone 1989; Polivka 1996). Another approach is to consider dimensions of ‘precarious employment ’ in relation to a typology of total e...
This dissertation presents a study of numerical flexibility and its relation to precarious employmen...
While precarious work is a phenomenon often associated with non-professional workers, the emerging c...
This paper examines the association between income and precarious employment, how this association i...
common definition has yet emerged. ‘Precarious employment ’ is sometimes used loosely as a synonym f...
Discussion of the implications of precarious work for individual workers remains hesitant and often ...
“Precarious work constitutes a global challenge that has a wide range of consequences cutting across...
Across the OECD, there is a significant decline in standard/typical work or employment relations and...
'Precarious employment' is a better concept for understanding labour market insecurity than the domi...
Precarious employment is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. The country studies in this volu...
reporting widespread feelings of insecurity and with good reason. Canada's labour force is beco...
The work environment in fixed-term jobs: are poor psychosocial conditions inevitable? Following the ...
Precarious jobs are typically described as jobs lacking security in one or several dimensions: job d...
Non-standard employment is fairly common in Canada, accounting for almost two in five workers aged 1...
Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of...
The issue of precarious employment has gained increasing currency over recent years, as OECD countri...
This dissertation presents a study of numerical flexibility and its relation to precarious employmen...
While precarious work is a phenomenon often associated with non-professional workers, the emerging c...
This paper examines the association between income and precarious employment, how this association i...
common definition has yet emerged. ‘Precarious employment ’ is sometimes used loosely as a synonym f...
Discussion of the implications of precarious work for individual workers remains hesitant and often ...
“Precarious work constitutes a global challenge that has a wide range of consequences cutting across...
Across the OECD, there is a significant decline in standard/typical work or employment relations and...
'Precarious employment' is a better concept for understanding labour market insecurity than the domi...
Precarious employment is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. The country studies in this volu...
reporting widespread feelings of insecurity and with good reason. Canada's labour force is beco...
The work environment in fixed-term jobs: are poor psychosocial conditions inevitable? Following the ...
Precarious jobs are typically described as jobs lacking security in one or several dimensions: job d...
Non-standard employment is fairly common in Canada, accounting for almost two in five workers aged 1...
Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of...
The issue of precarious employment has gained increasing currency over recent years, as OECD countri...
This dissertation presents a study of numerical flexibility and its relation to precarious employmen...
While precarious work is a phenomenon often associated with non-professional workers, the emerging c...
This paper examines the association between income and precarious employment, how this association i...