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How Precarious Is 'Non-standard' Employment? Evidence for West Germany

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  • Buchtemann, Christopher F
  • Quack, Sigrid

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The number of people engaging in some type of 'atypical' employment in West Germany has increased considerably in recent years, as it has in most other Western European countries. We have found that disadvantages in terms of working conditions, incomes and social protection tend to coumulate within certain categories of 'atypical' work, namely 'marginal' part-time and short-term temporary job arrangements. In the medium and long term the relative precariousness of 'atypical' employment depends largely on the duration of the 'atypical' work and the possibilities of transition into 'regular' employment. However, all part-time employment in likely to result in very low pension benefits, which, given the context of increasing marital instability, must leave some workers in a very 'precarious' position. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Buchtemann, Christopher F & Quack, Sigrid, 1990. "How Precarious Is 'Non-standard' Employment? Evidence for West Germany," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 14(3), pages 315-329, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:14:y:1990:i:3:p:315-29
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    1. Leah Vosko, 2008. "Temporary Work in Transnational Labor Regulation: SER-Centrism and the Risk of Exacerbating Gendered Precariousness," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 88(1), pages 131-145, August.
    2. Kate Daisy Bone, 2021. "Cruel Optimism and Precarious Employment: The Crisis Ordinariness of Academic Work," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 174(2), pages 275-290, November.
    3. Chris Hurl, 2016. "Local government, the Standard Employment Relationship, and the making of Ontario’s public sector, 1945–1963," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(2), pages 330-347, February.
    4. Rafael Gomez & Danielle Lamb, 2019. "Unions and Non-Standard Work: Union Representation and Wage Premiums across Non-Standard Work Arrangements in Canada, 1997–2014," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 72(4), pages 1009-1035, August.

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