Economic instability, social changes, and new social policies place economic insecurity high on the scholarly and political agenda. This paper contributes to these debates by proposing a new multidimensional, intertemporal measure of economic insecurity that accounts for both its multiplicity and its dynamism.
It is now available on another Paper related to RISING prin. This working paper is authored by Costanzo Ranci (Politecnico di Milano), Jason Backfield (Harvard University), Laura Bernardi (Université de Lausanne) and Andrea Parma (Politecnico di Milano).
The papaer is available now open access on the on the journal’s website at this link.
This paper examines the occupational and social impact of robotics and labour-replacing technologies in Western European countries. In particular, the changes in workforce composition and possible modifications to the occupational stratification of European societies are assessed, together with the “shrinking-middle-class” hypothesis.
The working paper reviews the main occupation based social class measures and delineates them from other concepts such as status (ceto, stand) and continuous measures of socio-economic positions. The theoretical foundations of EGP and ESeC schemes and the alternative proposal by Oesch are presented.
This working paper presents the scientific debate regarding the topic of economic insecurity, focusing on all the different definitions proposed so far and the related measures.