Die Renten- und Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte haben zu mehr Unsicherheit und Ungleichheit in der Alterssicherung geführt. Das wird in den kommenden Jahren weiter zunehmen. Atypische Beschäftigung, steigende Arbeitslosigkeit und ein stark angewachsener Niedriglohnsektor...

This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, 1991-97. Four different types of non-standard employment (non-standard contracts, places, times, and...

A range of evidence suggests that non-standard jobs, including fixed-term and other temporary jobs such as casual jobs, pay lower wages than more standard, permanent jobs, even after controlling for differences in worker and job characteristics. A recent literature suggests this is also the case...