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Precarious Knowledge Work? The Combined Effect of Occupational Unemployment and Flexible Employment on Job Insecurity

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  • Aleksandra Wilczyńska

    (Open University of Catalonia)

  • Dominik Batorski

    (University of Warsaw)

  • Joan Torrent-Sellens

    (Open University of Catalonia)

Abstract

Job insecurity affects individual well-being and organisational performance. Many studies show correlation between job insecurity and flexible employment. However, whether flexible contracts inevitably contribute to precarious employment, independently of other factors, is less clear. Here, we investigate the impact of employment flexibility on job insecurity among knowledge workers, depending on the unemployment rate in their occupations. Logistic models, estimated using a large sample of workers, showed that job insecurity among temporary workers in occupations with low unemployment does not differ significantly from job insecurity among permanent workers. Occupational unemployment adversely affects only temporary knowledge workers, while permanent workers are uninfluenced.

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  • Aleksandra Wilczyńska & Dominik Batorski & Joan Torrent-Sellens, 2020. "Precarious Knowledge Work? The Combined Effect of Occupational Unemployment and Flexible Employment on Job Insecurity," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 11(1), pages 281-304, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jknowl:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1007_s13132-018-0540-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s13132-018-0540-2
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