What does non-standard employment look like in the United States? An empirical typology of employment quality.

ABSTRACT: Despite significant interest in the changing nature of employment as a critical social and economic challenge facing society-especially the decline in the so-called Standard Employment Relationship (SER) and rise in more insecure, precarious forms of employment-scholars have struggled to operationalize the multifaceted and heterogeneous nature of contemporary worker-employer relationships within empirical analyses. Here we investigate the character and distribution of employment relationships in the U.S., drawing on a representative sample of wage-earners and self-employed from the General Social Survey (2002 - 2018). We use the multidimensional construct of employment quality (EQ), which includes both contractual (e.g., wages, contract type) and relational (e.g., employee representation a

SUBMITTER: Peckham T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10062421 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature