What can a granular analysis of “non-standard” workers tell us? A new paper by Immervoll et al shows that in pre-Covid times, in most OECD countries workers in “standard” employment have a 70-80% chance of accessing social protection. The paper then unpacks the analysis for the self-employed (p.27), part-time dependent employed (p.29), and unstable dependent employed (p.30). And here comes the news: for half of the sample of 16 countries (i.e., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Spain, and UK), the authors found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, there is only a
limited gap between coverage provisions accorded to standard versus non-standard workers . Conversely, differences were more pronounced in other countries, including non-standard workers...
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