Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50567 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 08,10
Publisher: 
University of Kent, Department of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
I consider the concept of employment insecurity and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea-change in employment insecurity. Workers in transitional economies and developing economies worried the most about insecurity. Perceived insecurity tended to be greater for women, for less-educated and for older workers. However, these patterns vary across country groups, in ways that are only sometimes explicable in terms of their known institutional characteristics. In general, subjective employment insecurity tracks the unemployment rate.
Subjects: 
precarious work
job insecurity
gender
job quality
unemployment
JEL: 
J6
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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