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Nonstandard Employment in the Nordics - Toward Precarious Work?
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Abstract This article examines nonstandard employment and precariousness in four Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway). Drawing on data from the Labour Force Survey from 1995 to 2015, the article investigates and compares recent developments of nonstandard employment in the countries and ana... view more
This article examines nonstandard employment and precariousness in four Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway). Drawing on data from the Labour Force Survey from 1995 to 2015, the article investigates and compares recent developments of nonstandard employment in the countries and analyzes whether fixed-term contracts, temporary agency work, marginal part-time work and solo self-employment have precarious elements (measured as income or job insecurity). We conclude that nonstandard employment has remained rather stable in all four countries over time. However, although nonstandard employment seems to be largely integrated in the Nordic labor markets, it still entails precarious elements in certain countries in particular. Norway and Denmark stand out as having less insecure labor markets, while Finland and Sweden have more precariousness associated with nonstandard employment. We argue that these differences are explained by differences in the institutional contexts in the countries.... view less
Keywords
type of employment; flexibility; precarious employment; Denmark; Sweden; Finland; Norway; term contract; temporary work; minimal employment; part-time work
Classification
Labor Market Research
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Free Keywords
income insecurity; job insecurity; nonstandard employment; Nordic labor markets; precariousness; European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) 1995-2015
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 7-32
Journal
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 9 (2019) S6
Issue topic
Precarious Work in the Nordics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18291/njwls.v9iS6.114689
ISSN
2245-0157
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0