Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319334 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Journal of Social Welfare [ISSN:] 1468-2397 [Volume:] 34 [Issue:] 2 [Article No.:] e12698 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2024
Publisher: 
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
Abstract: 
Non‐standard employment (NSE) might offer employment opportunities for unemployed workers, who would not find a job otherwise and can improve their human capital while working in NSE instead of being unemployed. NSE thus could serve as a bridge to regular, permanent employment. However, these stepping stone effects might not occur in a segmented labour market, when the accumulated human capital is not useful for regular jobs or NSE is not a positive signal to potential employers. Using German administrative data and sequence and cluster analysis, this article examined the labour market trajectories of initially unemployed individuals between 2012 and 2015 over a 4‐year period with a focus on four common forms of NSE. The results indicate that NSE is not limited to marginal groups but 62% of the initially unemployed belong to a cluster with a substantial share of NSE. Furthermore, while most individuals stay in NSE, some regular full‐time employment occurs after NSE.
Subjects: 
employment trajectories
non‐standard employment
sequence analysis
unemployment
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