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Job attitudes, behaviours and well‐being among different types of temporary workers in Europe and Israel
Author(s) -
GRACIA Francisco J.,
RAMOS José,
PEIRÓ José María,
CABALLER Amparo,
SORA Beatriz
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2011.00115.x
Subject(s) - employability , typology , flexicurity , job satisfaction , demographic economics , preference , argument (complex analysis) , job insecurity , life satisfaction , sample (material) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , labour economics , social psychology , economics , sociology , work (physics) , medicine , pedagogy , mechanical engineering , chemistry , programming language , chromatography , anthropology , computer science , engineering , microeconomics
. Applying an innovative typology based on preference for temporary employment and perceived employability, the authors empirically examine four types of temporary workers (and a group of permanent workers for comparison). In a sample of 1,300 employees from six countries, they find significant differences between the four types on a broad set of variables – including demographic and job characteristics, attitude and insecurity – but not in life satisfaction and well‐being. They conclude with an argument against the equation of temporary employment with low‐skilled workers unable to find a permanent job, stressing the valuable implications of more sensitive research for policy‐making on flexicurity.