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...time work, temporary work and contract work proliferated. Employers pursue these arrangements primarily because they cut labor costs and permit the circumvention of state and federal labor laws. Of course, reducing labor costs with the same number of workers necessarily means lower wages. In a recently published study, Arne Kalleberg, Ken Hudson and I show that nonstandard employment arrangements (particularly temporary work and contract work) reduce workers' pay, access to benefits and job security...

Author: By Barbara Reskin, | Title: Bad Jobs at Harvard | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

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