Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Work and Occupations
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
Right arrow Citation Map
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 HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (5)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Maurin, E.
Right arrow Articles by Postel-Vinay, F.
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?

The European Job Security Gap

Eric Maurin

Groupe de Recherche en Economie et Statistique

Fabien Postel-Vinay

Departement et Laboratoire d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée

The authors use a large-scale data set covering 13 European countries during the period 1995 to 2001 to compare trends in cross-skill inequalities in terms of wages and exposure to insecure job positions. Cross-country comparisons of these two facets of inequality show that (a) higher wage gaps generally come along with lower job security gaps and (b) job security represents the main lever for adjustment to macroeconomic changes in most European countries. The authors conclude that transatlantic differences in attitude toward inequality is more in the type of inequality that each society is more inclined to tolerate than in overall tolerance for inequality.

Key Words: inequality • wages • job security • skill premium

Work and Occupations, Vol. 32, No. 2, 229-252 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0730888405274603
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?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Eur Sociol RevHome page
P. Barbieri
Flexible Employment and Inequality in Europe
Eur. Sociol. Rev., December 1, 2009; 25(6): 621 - 628.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Eur Sociol RevHome page
M. Erlinghagen
Self-Perceived Job Insecurity and Social Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of 17 European Countries
Eur. Sociol. Rev., April 1, 2008; 24(2): 183 - 197.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 American Behavioral ScientistHome page
T. A. DiPrete
What Has Sociology to Contribute to the Study of Inequality Trends? A Historical and Comparative Perspective
American Behavioral Scientist, January 1, 2007; 50(5): 603 - 618.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Work and OccupationsHome page
T. A. DiPrete
Labor Markets, Inequality, and Change: A European Perspective
Work and Occupations, May 1, 2005; 32(2): 119 - 139.
[Abstract] [PDF]