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"This study examines public attitudes to various social security programmes in the modern flexible economy. While numerical and functional flexibility have become more important in most European countries, these types of flexibility are assumed to affect job security, community feeling and, as a consequence, public attitudes to social security in contradictory ways. An analysis of recent Dutch survey data indicates that support for social security programmes, particularly unemployment spending, can be understood in terms of the increased levels of internal job insecurity experienced by ‘atypical' workers. In contrast to some of the arguments that are outlined in this article, it appears that the emergence of a flexible labour market has not affected levels of community feeling. "

"Technologische veranderingen en globalisering hebben grote gevolgen voor het werk dat mensen verrichten. Maar welke groepen werknemers ondervinden eigenlijk de voordelen van deze ontwikkelingen en van welke groepen werkenden staan de banen onder druk? Deze en andere vragen worden in dit boek behandeld aan de hand van recent onderzoek.

Robotisering, een vierde industriële revolutie, outsourcing en resourcing: de arbeidsmarkt is heftig in beweging. Volgens velen voltrekken zich nu ingrijpende en fundamentele economische veranderingen die een revolutie op de arbeidsmarkt kunnen inluiden. Sommige deskundigen zeggen dat een groot deel van de huidige werkgelegenheid, zij spreken zelfs over ongeveer vijftig procent, zal verdwijnen.

Slagen overheden en sociale partners erin om invloed uit te oefenen op de veranderingen op de arbeidsmarkt en valt er voor bedrijven nog wel iets te kiezen als het gaat om de inzet van nieuwe technologie, zoals robots?

Deze en andere vragen worden in dit boek behandeld aan de hand van recent onderzoek. Leidende vragen zijn of verschillen in arbeidsmarktposities tussen laag-, midden- en hooggeschoolden toenemen in de tijd, hoe dit komt en op welke manieren dit kan worden beïnvloed."

"Today, there is a widespread suggestion that permanent workers are increasingly subject to precarious working conditions. Due to international competition and declining union density, job qualities of permanent workers are assumed to be under strain. According to proponents of a democratization of risk rationale, low job qualities that were traditionally attached to secondary labour markets are transferred to workers in primary segments of the labour market. In this study, the authors test this theoretical rationale among workers in 11 Western European economies, using two waves of the European Working Conditions Survey. The results do not confirm a democratization of labour market risk. Lower job qualities are highly associated with flexible employment contracts and highlight a clear gap between insiders and outsiders."

"There is a lively ongoing debate about the effects of the widespread introduction of robots in work environments. Many people in the labor market worry about inequality and possible job loss that robot technology may create. However, large-scale studies on the determinants of these perceptions are thus far lacking. This article assesses which members of the labor force are most fearful of the introduction of robots at work by using the 2012 Eurobarometer Public Attitudes towards Robots dataset, covering 11 206 respondents in 20 European countries. Our study shows that those (a) in economic positions that are more likely to be negatively affected by robotics are more likely to be fearful of robots at work, along with, to some extent, those living in countries (b) with adverse economic conditions and (c) where employees are less protected from market forces. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed."

"Most research on outsourcing looks at cost-driven, resource-based or transformational motives to understand outsourcing decisions at the company-level. This article brings in the workers' perspective, which is a topic that has not been the focus of attention of most previous studies. The article takes cross-national data for 18,264 companies in 18 European economies to examine the role of worker power on outsourcing decisions. According to the results from multilevel logistic analysis and contrary to the authors' expectations, worker power relates to a higher likelihood of outsourcing. This article concludes with some thoughts on this finding and presents some directions for future research. "