The changing importance of lifetime jobs in the United Kingdom

St‐Denis, Xavier

doi:10.1111/ilr.12190

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“…We conclude that public sector restructuring involved both a decrease in hiring, as shown by the increase in tenure, and a decrease in the retention rate (increase in separations) that unfolded over the 1976-1995 period approximately. Nevertheless, the public sector appears to still provide opportunities for stable careers, in line with other work finding persisting pockets of lifetime jobs in increasingly unstable labour markets (St-Denis, 2021).…”

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Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015

St‐Denis

Hollister

2023

Work, Employment and Society

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The literature on flexibilization documents the decline of the standard employment relationships, resulting in greater job insecurity. Consequently, the stability of career trajectories is expected to have decreased. However, existing studies in many countries pose a significant challenge: the available evidence shows no clear downward trend and possibly even an increase in job stability since the 1970s, as measured by trends in job tenure duration or job separations. This article highlights important limitations of such studies and provides novel evidence on the transformation of career trajectories. It is the first to provide evidence of a decrease in average job tenure duration for men in Canada and a decrease in five-year and 10-year retention rates over the four decades between 1976 and 2015, adjusting for sociodemographic shifts unrelated to flexibilization. We also find that average job tenure has increased for women, while their long-term job retention rates declined.

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Section: Public and Private Sector Trendssupporting

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Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015

St‐Denis

Hollister

2023

Work, Employment and Society

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Sustainable Livelihoods

Carr

2023

Wage and Well-Being

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Demography as a Field: Where We Came From and Where We Are Headed

et al. 2023

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This essay provides a series of reflections on the current state of demography as seen by four early-career researchers who are actively engaged in aspects of the discipline as varied as research, teaching, mentorship, data collection efforts, policy making, and policy advising. Despite some claims that the discipline is weakening, we showcase the great potential of the field and outline promising pathways and novel directions for the future. In so doing, we critically assess recent innovations in data quality and availability, stressing the need to “revolutionize” the way that demographic methods are taught by adopting a viewpoint that more closely reflects the rapidly changing, or “fast,” nature of global social phenomena such as conflict-related displacements, environmental disasters, migration streams, pandemics, and evolving population policies. We conclude by discussing the relevance of careful demographic analyses for policy making, stressing three main points: (i) the need to make demography more visible and understandable to the public eye; (ii) the importance of engaging and co-creating with local communities to “break” the academic bubble; and (iii) the urge to counteract the spread of misinformation—a phenomenon that has become even more visible in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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The changing importance of lifetime jobs in the United Kingdom

Cited by 4 publications

References 55 publications

Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015

Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015

Sustainable Livelihoods

Demography as a Field: Where We Came From and Where We Are Headed

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