United in Precarious Employment? Employment Precarity of Young Couples in the Netherlands, 1992-2007

The trend towards labour market flexibilization in advanced economies since the 1990s is associated with more employment insecurity. This study examines to what extent employment flexibility among young people in the Netherlands is related to employment flexibility or unemployment of the partner, between 1992 and 2007. In addition, we aim to explain this relationship. Multinomial logistic regression models are estimated using 16 cross-sections of the Dutch Labor Force Survey (1992–2007), including 87,204 young couples. The results show that there is a positive relationship between precarious e... Mehr ...