BACKGROUND The neoliberal policies and its socioeconomic consequences in Korea have made employment conditions insecure and affected employees' health as well. METHODS AND FINDINGS To examine the association between employment condition and smoking status, we selected male respondents aged 20-59 that participated in all of the 8(th)-10(th) wave of Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(KLIPS) wh...

BACKGROUND The globalisation of the economy and the labour markets has resulted in a growing proportion of individuals who find themselves in a precarious labour market situation, especially among the young. This pertains also to the Nordic countries, despite their characterisation as well developed welfare states with active labour market policies. This should be viewed against the background ...

This article focuses on the under-researched temporary agency employment in Greece. It shows that the development of the temporary employment agency sector has gone hand in hand with the flow of undocumented and exploitable migrant labour in Greece over the past 25 years, reflecting the segmentation of the Greek labour market along ethnic lines. Using empirical research evidence on the operatio...

Article history: Received 4 July 2014 Available online 8 November 2014 In this article, data from the 2005 European Working Conditions Survey are used to examine the relationship between contemporary employment arrangements and thework-related well-being of European employees. By means of a Latent Class Cluster Analysis, several features of the employment conditions and relations characterizing...

S ince at least the late 1970s, ‘‘flexible production’’ has commonly been considered as a positive and necessary innovation to ensure sustainable economic growth. 2 The need to be ‘‘flexible’’ has been proposed for workplace technical systems, schedules and salaries, and ‘‘flexibility’’ has even been recognised as a positive feature of a worker’s personality. Increasing labour flexibility means...

Fundamental shifts in the structure of labour markets, work systems, and employment relations of industrialized countries have outpaced changes in legislative, social and political mechanisms. As a result, a growing number of workers are exposed to precarious employment experiences, which we define as experiences that give rise to instability, lack of protection, insecurity, and social and econ...