Flexible Jobs over the Lifetime

Shirley Dex and Andrew McCulloch
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Shirley Dex: University of Cambridge
Andrew McCulloch: University of Cambridge

Chapter 7 in Flexible Employment, 1997, pp 104-132 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we examine the extent to which individuals in the BHPS data experienced flexible employment over their working lives. We draw upon the details recorded in the retrospective accounts of their past working lives between leaving full-time education and 1990. This is supplemented by further details about jobs from the panel wave interviews. We should remember that the retrospective data are subject to recall biases. Studies of recall reliability show that short periods of employment, which were not particularly significant to the individual, will be more likely to have been forgotten than longer more salient periods (Dex, 1995). With this proviso, we can examine the extent to which individuals recalled having experienced any self-employment, part-time permanent and any temporary employment (either part or full-time) over their lifetime. Individuals were allowed to define all of the states used to classify their jobs for themselves. In addition, a category of ‘any flexible’ has been constructed. This includes any self-employed, part-time or temporary job.1

Keywords: Temporary Employment; Flexible Work; Successive Cohort; Flexible Employment; BHPS Data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14333-7_7

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