Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Work, Employment & Society
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (4)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Payne, J.
Right arrow Articles by Payne, C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Unemployment and Peripheral Work

Joan Payne

Policy Studies Institute, Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research, Oxford University

Clive Payne

Computing and Research Support Unit in the Social Studies Faculty of Oxford University, Nuffield College

A spell of unemployment appears to restrict job choice. We use British Labour Force Survey data for 1979-89 to model whether, after controlling for age, qualifications and other variables, the jobs that unemployed people get are different from the jobs of people who have not been unemployed. We find that they tend to be of lower skill level and more often temporary or part-time; for men with good qualifications they are also more likely to be of self-employed status. During the 1980s the skill profile of the British workforce tended to improve, but not so the jobs of recently unemployed men and women, so that, despite government training schemes, the relative chances of an unemployed person getting a low skill job increased. The strong association between recent unemployment and `non-standard' forms of employment suggests that the labour force is to some extent polarised into secure `core' and insecure `peripheral' jobs, but, despite deregulation in the private sector and the weakening of union power, we found no evidence that the degree of polarisation had increased between 1979 and 1989.

Work, Employment & Society, Vol. 7, No. 4, 513-534 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/095001709374001
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?