Employment status and job insecurity: On the subjective appraisal of an objective status

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 557-577

  Klandermans, Bert ^a   Hesselink, John Klein ^b   van Vuuren, Tinka ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

employee health; flexicurity; job insecurity; job loss; temporary employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650163998     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09358362     Document Type: Article

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