abstract: 'The rise of flexible employment in advanced democracies has been

  predominantly studied in the insider-outsider framework of the

  dualization literature. However, against the background of rising income

  inequality, it seems questionable to assume that all labor market

  insiders are equally affected by flexibilization. This paper explores

  whether flexibilization increases wage inequality among labor market

  insiders. I argue that flexibilization exposes insiders to a set of wage

  risks that are concentrated among low- and middle-income insiders,

  creating downward wage pressure on those insiders. The empirical

  analysis, covering 22 democracies between 1985 and 2016, finds that the

  deregulation of non-standard employment is associated with declining

  wage shares of low-income and middle-income earners, while top earners

  benefit. These major distributional shifts imply an important

  qualification of the dualization literature: rather than pitting

  insiders against outsiders, flexibilization `at the margins'' seems to

  exacerbate divides among insiders.'
affiliation: 'Weisstanner, D (Corresponding Author), Univ Oxford, Dept Social Policy
  \& Intervent, Oxford, England.

  Weisstanner, David, Univ Oxford, Dept Social Policy \& Intervent, Oxford, England.'
article-number: PII S0047279420000409
author: Weisstanner, David
author-email: david.weisstanner@spi.ox.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Weisstanner
  given: David
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1017/S0047279420000409
eissn: 1469-7823
files: []
issn: 0047-2794
journal: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY
keywords: 'flexibilization; wage inequality; dualization; labor market policy;

  insiders; outsiders'
keywords-plus: 'STEPPING-STONES; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICS; PREFERENCES; INSECURITY;

  EMPLOYMENT; WORK'
language: English
month: OCT
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '54'
orcid-numbers: Weisstanner, David/0000-0002-4245-898X
pages: 725-744
papis_id: ebd25beb86e59e3c490d6e307138e8f8
ref: Weisstanner2021insiderspressure
researcherid-numbers: Weisstanner, David/AAG-9005-2019
times-cited: '5'
title: 'Insiders under pressure: Flexibilization at the margins and wage inequality'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000721238900005
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '5'
volume: '50'
web-of-science-categories: Public Administration; Social Issues; Social Work
year: '2021'