A Shady Sphere of Employment: the Third Sector as an Area of Labour Market Policy Experimentation

Abstract

The article investigates in how far the quality of employment relations in the third (non-profit) sector changes, given this sector's current social condition of an enforced 'economisation'. The analyses show that atypical employment relations such as part-time jobs and temporary employment increasingly dominate the third sector. In East Germany, 16 per cent of the employed in the third sector work in occasional "One-Euro Jobs". There is reason to fear a further deterioration of employment relations and the development towards a low wage sector. (IAB)

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Dathe, D., Hohendanner, C. & Priller, E. (2009): Wenig Licht, viel Schatten - der Dritte Sektor als arbeitsmarktpolitisches Experimentierfeld. (WZBrief Arbeit 03), Berlin, 6 p.