Sehnbruch, Kirsten 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5976-664X, Prieto, Joaquín and Vidal, Diego
(2025)
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019.
Social Science Research, 131.
ISSN 0049-089X
Abstract
This paper studies whether workers become “stuck” in poor-quality employment, or whether poor-quality employment can serve as a “stepping stone” towards better job opportunities in the Chilean labor market. It does this from a multidimensional and longitudinal perspective, taking into account the intensity of the deprivation that workers face. In particular, it examines how workers move between good and bad jobs, and between these jobs, unemployment and inactivity and also discusses the respective determinants of these changes. The results of this analysis show that the deprivation levels among women in the labour market are persistently higher those of men, and that workers do indeed become stuck in bad jobs. Thus, the paper presents a methodology for measuring chronic deprivation in the labor market, an issue on which neither the literature on job quality nor the literature on poor-quality employment (or bad jobs) has focused. It concludes by discussing the policy implications of this research.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 Elsevier Inc. |
| Divisions: | International Inequalities Institute |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General > J01 - Labor Economics: General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets > J40 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J60 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J63 - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J68 - Public Policy |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2025 16:15 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2025 10:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/128576 |
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