I considerthe concept of employment insecurity and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea-change in employment...

Purpose This paper aims to study the role of tourism specialisation on tourism labour precarity in Argentinian cities, considering urban primacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose an econometric model that iterates between alternative labour precarity measures explained by the...

Schreiner belegt, dass vor allem Hartz IV mit allen seinen Folgen negative Auswirkungen auf die soziale Gerechtigkeit hat. Darin sieht er das Symbol für den Niedergang der modernen Sozialdemokratie. Zusammenhänge zwischen der Ausweitung des Niedriglohnsektors (Reduzierung von...