Western Europe – The growth of part-time and temporary work will cause a “demographic crisis” says the British Sociological Association

Western Europe faces a demographic crisis caused by the growth of part-time and temporary work, the British Sociological Association. 

Professor Andranik Tangian said that if current trends continued, by 2030 a “critical” situation would develop, with growing economic inequality and fewer births.

At the root of this was the growth of the number of people in ‘atypical employment’ – defined as those with no permanent full-time contract, including part-timers, temporary workers, agency workers and the self-employed.

The proportion of atypical employment had grown from 24% in 2000 to 45% of the workforce in 2010 in the 15 EU countries, including the UK, that were studied by Professor Tangian, of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany.

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