In Europe, the consequences of temporary employment are at the centre of a social policy
debate about whether there is a trade-off between efficiency and equity when deregulating …

The main aim of this paper is to extend the suitability of the concepts of the boundaryless
and the protean career for the study of career mobility. To do so, we introduce a conceptual …

The aim of the article is to discuss the concept of flexicurity presented as a new paradigm for
analyzing modern labor markets (analytical perspective) and as a metaphor for policies …

Since the crisis of the Fordist 'golden age'with its corollaries of stable, full-time, full-life,(male)
fullemployment and of full-welfare entitlements,'flexibility'has become a sort of 'magic …

This paper tests whether overeducation at the beginning of a graduate's job career is a trap
into continuing overeducation later on, or a stepping stone to a job that matches the …

Europe combines several unique features in regard to the development, incidence and
effects of telework. Many countries on the continent have seen large-scale economic shifts …

This paper analyses how unstable employment influences becoming a mother in Italy and
Spain. Results suggest that institutional factors foster dynamics of social inequality and …

I am grateful to the Department of Sociology, University of Leicester, which generously
supported in my research project and allowed me to take a study leave during which I was …

Temporary contracts are increasingly used in academia. This is a major concern for non-
tenured researchers, since weak job security may hamper job satisfaction. This paper …

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