Study reveals precarious employment on the rise long before COVID-19

(University of Illinois at Chicago) A study led by a University of Illinois Chicago researcher uses a new approach to measure precarious, or low-quality, employment in the United States. And, according to those findings, precarious employment has increased 9% between 1988 and 2016. Precarious employment, or P.E., is defined as low-quality employment, which is often characterized by low wages, job insecurity and irregular hours, making employment risky and stressful for the worker.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news