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  title info:
    title: Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment
    sub title: Four European Countries in Comparison
  name:
    name part: Leschke, Janine.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 250 p. online resource.
  abstract: The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important questions in this regard. First, do workers with part-time and temporary contracts face greater risks of becoming unemployed than those with regular contracts? Secondly, how far are they disadvantaged in terms of access to and level of unemployment benefits? The author compares the design of unemployment benefit systems in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. After discussing the development and role of non-standard employment in these countries, she examines the relevant features of unemployment insurance systems such as hours and earning thresholds and minimum contribution requirements. Her empirical analysis shows that non-standard workers are more likely to become unemployed or inactive and are disadvantaged in their entitlements to unemployment benefits.
  table of contents: Theoretical background -- Labour market indicators and the occurrence of non-standard employment -- Regulation of temporary and part-time employment and reasons for using them -- Are unemployment insurance systems adapting to non-standard employment? -- Risk of job loss and the insurance situation of non-standard workers -- Conclusion.
  note: by Janine Leschke.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social structure
  subject:
    topic: Social inequality
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Social Structure, Social Inequality
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: International Relations
  classification: HM401-1281
  classification: 301
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91197-7
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