Institutional Solutions to Precariousness & Inequality in Labour Markets

Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin

Working Papers from Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge

Abstract: It has become widely assumed that the standard employment relationship (SER) is in irreversible decline in industrialised societies. However, non-standard and precarious work relationships often complement the SER via labour market transitions, and are not displacing it as the focal point of labour market regulation. The coordination and risk management functions of the SER continue to be relevant in market economies, and the SER is adjusting to new conditions. The SER has a complex and evolving relationship to gender and to social stratification. In the European context where the SER originated and achieved its clearest legal expression, institutional solutions to precariousness and inequality are being developed, the most innovative of which avoid simple deregulation in favour of integrated policy responses involving a range of complementary regulatory mechanisms.

Keywords: employment relationship; labour flexibility; labour law; precarious work; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J83 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09
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