Adapting social protection to the needs of multiple jobholders in Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany

Lukas Jerg, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Karin Schulze Buschoff
Additional contact information
Lukas Jerg: 38962Hertie School Berlin, Germany
Jacqueline O’Reilly: ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, 1948University of Sussex Business School, UK
Karin Schulze Buschoff: Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut (WSI) der 40056Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2021, vol. 27, issue 2, 237-253

Abstract: Working in two or more jobs at the same time creates special needs in terms of social security that differ from those of standard dependent employees or the self-employed. To investigate how well social security systems adapt to multiple jobholders we examine three case studies of countries with different levels and trends in multiple jobholding: Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany. We review recent trends and policies to address social protection gaps for multiple jobholders in these countries prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the extent to which the emergence of the ‘platform economy’ can exacerbate multiple jobholding. We conclude that attempts to resolve the gaps in social security protection reflect distinctive characteristics of each employment system.

Keywords: Multiple jobholding; platform economy; social security; COVID-19 social policies; Denmark; the United Kingdom; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1024258921991039 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:treure:v:27:y:2021:i:2:p:237-253

DOI: 10.1177/1024258921991039

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().