abstract: 'Departing from growing concerns about in-work poverty and the

  proliferation of flexible employment, we investigate the association

  between temporary employment and poverty in a European comparative

  perspective. In doing so, we focus specifically on possible gender

  dimensions, because some are concerned that the impact of flexible

  employment on income security will be different for men and women and

  that gender inequality will increase. By means of a logistic multilevel

  model, we analyse recent EU-SILC data for 24 European countries. The

  results show that the temporarily employed have a higher poverty risk

  vis-a-vis permanent workers, mainly caused by lower wages. However, the

  risk factors to become working poor are similar. The poorly educated,

  young workers and those living in a single earner household with

  dependent children have an increased probability to live in poverty,

  whether they are employed on temporary or permanent basis. Differences

  between European welfare regimes demonstrate that policy constellations

  influence the magnitude of these risk factors. Counter-intuitively,

  temporary working women have a lower poverty risk than their male

  counterparts. They are better protected because they are more often

  secondary earners in a dual earning household, while men are more often

  primary earners. This article advances knowledge on the linkages between

  temporary employment, economic insecurity and gender differences in

  European welfare states.'
affiliation: 'Van Lancker, W (Corresponding Author), Univ Antwerp, Fac Polit \& Social
  Sci M471, Herman Deleeck Ctr Social Policy, Sint Jacobstr 2, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

  Univ Antwerp, Fac Polit \& Social Sci M471, Herman Deleeck Ctr Social Policy, B-2000
  Antwerp, Belgium.'
author: Van Lancker, Wim
author-email: Wim.VanLancker@ua.ac.be
author_list:
- family: Van Lancker
  given: Wim
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/14616696.2011.638082
eissn: 1469-8307
files: []
issn: 1461-6696
journal: EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
keywords: 'temporary employment; nonstandard work; in-work poverty; gender; Europe;

  comparative'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET FLEXIBILITY; FLEXIBLE EMPLOYMENT; PART-TIME; POVERTY;

  INSECURITY; CAPITALISM; INEQUALITY; POLICIES; GERMANY; HEALTH'
language: English
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '81'
pages: 83-111
papis_id: 5648c095867fe39791385c19125a9d37
ref: Vanlancker2012europeanworld
times-cited: '34'
title: THE EUROPEAN WORLD OF TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT Gendered and poor?
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000301865600005
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usage-count-since-2013: '53'
volume: '14'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2012'