CRIS Scientific Seminar 2022-2023

Friday, November 25th 2022, 11:30 am
Sciences Po (1, Place Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin) - Room K031

Feeling disadvantaged? Type of employment contract and political attitudes

Kseniia Gatskova
(Senior researcher, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies )

We test the theory of relative deprivation in the context of intense labour reallocations in Polish labour market during the post-crisis period 2009–2015 when the incidence of temporary contracts was the highest in the EU and provide novel evidence on the causal relationship between the type of employment contract and political attitudes.

Our  findings suggest that temporary workers are more supportive of income redistribution and are less supportive of democracy. Moreover, a change in the contract type from temporary to permanent leads to a respective change in political attitudes. The effect of temporary employment on political attitudes is stronger pronounced in those population groups that meet better the conditions for occurrence of the sense of relative deprivation.

Registration is mandatory. Thank you.

Dr. Kseniia Gatskova's homepage: https://leibniz-ios.de/personen/details/kseniia-gatskova