TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Over the last few decades, precarious work rose as an important feature of socioeconomic insecurity in contemporary Europe. The following study asks: How do labor market institutions and labor market conditions shape work precarity in Europe? This research captures the elusive concept of precarious work by measuring the degree to which a job (1) is insecure and uncertain, (2) offers poor prospects of career mobility, and (3) puts workers in an economically insecure position with low pay. Building on two theoretical paradigms, the Varieties of Capitalism and the Power Resource Theory, this study derives and tests hypotheses about how macro-level factors shape the variation in the distribution of precarious work in 32 European countries. Combining individual-level data from the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey with country-level data from multiple sources, my findings suggest that work precarity decreases in countries with high percentages of employees in all enterprises receiving continual training, high percentages of all enterprises providing on-the-job training for employees, and high levels of spending on active labor market policies.
VL  - 31
SN  - 978-1-78743-288-8, 978-1-78743-287-1/0277-2833
DO  - 10.1108/S0277-283320170000031009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320170000031009
AU  - Mai Quan
ED  - Arne L. Kalleberg
ED  - Steven P. Vallas
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Precarious Work in Europe: Assessing Cross-National Differences and Institutional Determinants of Work Precarity in 32 European Countries
T2  - Precarious Work
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Work
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 273
EP  - 306
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -