Bad Jobs in America: Standard and Nonstandard Employment Relations and Job Quality in the United States
By A. Kalleberg, B. Reskin, Ken Hudson. American Sociological Review, 2000
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The prevalence of nonstandard jobs is a matter of concern if, as many assume, such jobs are bad. We examine the relationship between nonstandard employment (on-call work and day labor, temporary-help agency employment, employment with contract companies, independent contracting, other self-employment, and part-time employment in “conventional” jobs) and exposure to “bad” job characteristics, using data from the 1995 Current Population Survey. Of workers age 18 and over, 31 percent are in some type of nonstandard employment. To assess the link between type of employment and bad jobs, we conceptualize “bad jobs” as those with low pay and without access to health insurance and pension benefits. About one in seven jobs in the United States is bad on these three dimensions. Nonstandard employment strongly increases workers’ exposure to bad job characteristics, net of controls for workers’ personal characteristics, family status, occupation, and industry.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- A portfolio perspective on entrepreneurship and economic development (2015, positive): “With regard to job creation, beyond numbers of jobs created, deeper insights are needed on the quality of jobs (e.g., Kalleberg et al. 2000; Zipp 1991) within each of our four venture types, as well as between high-growth ventures and the entrepreneurial firms they displace as they grow.”
- Passing the buck: Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers (2008, background): “These labor flexibility practices blur conventional distinctions between standard and non-standard employment (see also Kalleberg et al., 2000).”
- How satisfied are they and why? A study of job satisfaction, job rewards, gender and temporary agency workers in Australia (2010, background): “Although some assignments involve high-level skills, most temporary jobs involve lowskilled tasks and lower complexity (Kalleberg et al., 2000; OECD, 2002).”
- Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well-being (2009, neutral): “…that part-time jobs were generally of low quality, as reflected in relatively poor remuneration levels, the absence of fringe benefits, low levels of job security, and the lack of opportunities for career development (e.g., Blank 1990; Kalleberg et al. 2000; McGovern et al. 2005; Tilly 1996).”
- Balanced versus Unbalanced Psychological Contracts in Temporary and Permanent Employment: Associations with Employee Attitudes (2009, neutral): “A worthwhile avenue to pursue in future research would be to study exchange and balance in contexts with fewer safeguards, such as the USA.”