Informality, stability and precarity: a sequential analysis of occupational trajectories over the last few decades

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2017849382

Keywords:

Trajetórias profissionais, percurso de vida, precariedade, informalidade

Abstract

The issue of the unpredictability of occupational paths in the post-Fordist capitalist era has been widely discussed in contemporary sociology. Beginning with the second half of the 20th century, the article contextualises this debate in the Portuguese case. Mobilising the occupational trajectory concept, which it develops using a sequential analysis of the trajectories of three Portuguese age cohorts, it offers a path typology that articulates contractual formats and work. The results reveal a wide variety of trajectories and a segmentation of paths into different degrees of contractual vulnerability.

Author Biography

Vasco Ramos, ICS-UL

Doutorado em Sociologia pela Universidade de Lisboa (2015). Assistente de Investigação no ICS-ULisboa (desde 2009). colaborando em projetos nacionais e internacionais sobre trajectórias familiares e redes sociais. desigualdades sociais, políticas de família. Membro do Observatório das Famílias e das Políticas de Família (OFAP).

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Published

2017-03-31

Issue

No. 84 (2017)

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Artigos

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