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Polarisation of non-standard employment in Europe : exploring a missing piece of the inequality puzzle
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Abstract
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| The rise in non-standard employment inspired many scholars to study the social consequences of these new employment forms. Most research focusses on individuals working non-standard. With the increase in dual earnership, however, we need a household perspective. This study therefore develops the notion of household non-standard employment and applies a polarisation index to examine the distribution of non-standard work over dual earner couples. This polarisation index compares the actual rate of household non-standard employment with a counterfactual rate when non-standard employment would be randomly distributed over households. Drawing on EU-SILC 2011, we define non-standard workers as individuals who worked during the previous year, but not full-year full-time. The results indicate that the levels of polarisation vary considerably across countries. Because especially women do not work full-time, polarisation is highly negative since it is less likely to find clustering of non-standard work within households. This pattern is dominant in Continental European countries, but also observable in Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries. On the other hand, in Eastern and Southern European countries, non-standard employment is concentrated in some households, mainly because of the inability of its members to work full-year. Common characteristics of household members known to be associated with non-standard employment, like age and education, explain little of the levels of non-standard employment polarisation. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Social indicators research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement. - Dordrecht
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Publication
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Dordrecht
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2016
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ISSN
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0303-8300
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1573-0921
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DOI
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10.1007/S11205-014-0834-0
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Volume/pages
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125
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(2016)
, p. 171-189
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ISI
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000367685400009
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