Università della Svizzera italiana

Perceptions of job insecurity in Switzerland : evidence using verbal and numerical descriptors

Baruffini, Moreno

In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019, vol. 16, no. 10, p. 1785

The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of job insecurity among employees, applying a panel model that allows us to account for the business cycle. In addition, the data will enable the comparison of two measures of job insecurity, one with a cardinal scale, and one with an ordinal scale. First of all, this paper carries out a descriptive analysis of job insecurity, taking into...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Economic Insecurity and Global Casualisation: Threat or Promise?

Standing, Guy

In: Social Indicators Research, 2008, vol. 88, no. 1, p. 15-30