Open AccessCharacterisation of the Average Worker Employed Under Flexible Forms of Employment – Report on the Study of Individual Differences in the Context of Sociodemographic Data Concerning Polish Workers
Author(s) -
Małgorzata Dobrowolska,
Mariola ParuzelCzachura,
Marta Stasiła-Sieradzka,
Jagoda Sikora
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european journal of economics and business studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-9571
pISSN - 2411-4073
DOI - 10.2478/ejes-2018-0044
Subject(s) - sample (material) , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , demographic economics , business , psychology , economics , geography , chemistry , archaeology , chromatography , artificial intelligence , computer science
The paper presents the sociodemographic data obtained as a result of an empirical study carried out on a group of n=2118 workers employed under what is referred to as flexible forms of employment, within a more extensive research project entitled “Occupational problems of individuals working under flexible forms of employment - the psychological perspective”. The inspiration to focus on this particular part of the research was provided by a trend observed in the international literature, analysing the profile of an average flexible worker in highly developed countries. An analysis of the study sample of flexible workers shows that the group included rather young people, with a similar share of women and men, living in big cities, and with a rather short length of service; they were well-educated, married people with children, with a small number of previous employers, and mostly working in the private sector. The Polish study sample matches the descriptions of the average flexible European worker.