Employment precariousness is a social determinant that affects the health of workers,
families, and communities. Its recent popularity has been spearheaded by three main …

This paper brings together the research on temporary organizational forms. Despite a recent
surge in publications on this topic, there have been few attempts to integrate knowledge on …

Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or
unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effect of employee involvement
in the workplace on job satisfaction for millennial workers in Colombia. Design/methodology …

The empirical relationship between educational attainment and pay levels has been widely
acknowledged in the labour-economic and labour-sociology literatures. While the …

With the post-industrialization and flexibilization of European labour markets, research on
social and economic correlates of labour market vulnerability and weak labour market …

Most of the recent literature on the effects of labor market institutions on wages and
employment draws on reforms used as natural experiments. This is a significant …

This paper uses British large scale survey data to examine the extent to which the recent
financial crisis has affected firms' operational activity, and whether or not the existence of …

The diffusion of temporary work agency (TWA) jobs has led to a harsh policy debate and
ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the USA, based on quasi‐experimental …

How can we explain differences in nonstandard employment across countries? This article
provides an overview of the multifaceted relationships between national-level institutions …