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How alternative employment contracts affect low wage workers

22 October 2019

Contemporary labour markets are characterised by more atypical or alternative work arrangements. Some of these - like independent contractors - have emerged in the context of self-employment, while others - like zero hours contracts and temporary work - are evolutions of traditional employment contracts. Irrespective of its form, the increase in atypical work has led to discussions of a trade-off between the potentially desirable flexibility it offers and the emergence of low-wage, dead-end jobs, characterised by considerably fewer employment rights and less job security than conventional forms of employment.

Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi, Stephen Machin, Zero Hours Contracts and Labour Market Policy, Economic Policy, eiz008.

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