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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Leschke, Janine (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.