Abstract
AbstractThe purpose of this article is to investigate emerging areas of precarious employment in Sweden. Based on the literature on dimensions of precariousness and neoliberalism, this article will begin with an analysis of the transitioning Swedish welfare state and the contextual environment of precarious employment in Sweden. This will serve as a point of departure for the development of an occupational classification scheme including measures of income and employment security. In an empirical analysis, the occupational classification will be applied to a population-based register material including two birth cohorts of employed Swedish residents aged 28–33, with a registered income. The development of income and employment security will be described and discussed. By applying this newly developed measure of precarious employment, this article will provide a platform for future theoretical and empirical research on precarious employment in a transitioning welfare state.
Highlights
It has become difficult to conduct labour-related research without taking the growing phenomenon of precarious employment into consideration
Where do precariousness and precarisation take place and what forces drive this development? In a first step, this article aims to analyse the contextual environment of precarious employment by identifying mediating factors between contemporary societal phenomena and central features of precarious employment
This article will develop an occupational class scheme that may be used to identify the population in precarious employment
Summary
It has become difficult to conduct labour-related research without taking the growing phenomenon of precarious employment into consideration. In many parts of the world, The Economic and Labour Relations Review 31(2). The margins of the labour markets are quickly widening and the era of permanent and regulated types of employment being the indisputable norm is definitely over. This article aims to analyse the contextual environment of precarious employment by identifying mediating factors between contemporary societal phenomena and central features of precarious employment. This article will develop an occupational class scheme that may be used to identify the population in precarious employment. This scheme will be applied to two Swedish register-based birth cohorts aged 28–33 years in the years between 2000 and 2017
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