Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment Four European Countries in Comparison /

• Main Author: Leschke, Janine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science.; International relations.; Sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Political Science.; International Relations.

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 fa...

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.