The past 25 years have witnessed substantial changes in work organisation in Australia and most if not all other industrialised countries. Notable amongst these changes has been an expansion in parttime and fixed term or temporary employment (and a corresponding decline in permanent full-time jobs especially for males) a growth in home-based and telework as well as multiple jobholding. The prop...

Work in agriculture is hard, and it about to get harder. Hired farm labor a form of highly precarious employment, due various contingencies, with significant degrees insecurity poor...

Precariousness in working life is a rising concern Europe, but scant statistical evidence exists as to the prevalence and development of longstanding precarious employment. Using high-quality in...

We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partners’ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partnership quality. We assume that a satisfactory partnership is positively associated with the intention to have a first child. The analyses are based...