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Flexible Jobs over the Lifetime

In: Flexible Employment

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  • Shirley Dex

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Andrew McCulloch

    (University of Cambridge)

Abstract

In this chapter we examine the extent to which individuals in the BHPS data experienced flexible employment over their working lives. We draw upon the details recorded in the retrospective accounts of their past working lives between leaving full-time education and 1990. This is supplemented by further details about jobs from the panel wave interviews. We should remember that the retrospective data are subject to recall biases. Studies of recall reliability show that short periods of employment, which were not particularly significant to the individual, will be more likely to have been forgotten than longer more salient periods (Dex, 1995). With this proviso, we can examine the extent to which individuals recalled having experienced any self-employment, part-time permanent and any temporary employment (either part or full-time) over their lifetime. Individuals were allowed to define all of the states used to classify their jobs for themselves. In addition, a category of ‘any flexible’ has been constructed. This includes any self-employed, part-time or temporary job.1

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  • Shirley Dex & Andrew McCulloch, 1997. "Flexible Jobs over the Lifetime," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Flexible Employment, chapter 7, pages 104-132, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14333-7_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14333-7_7
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