Inégalités structurelles et inégalités fractales dans le contexte postfordiste du marché du travail

• Main Authors: Mircea Vultur, Jean Bernier
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association d'Economie Politique 2013-02-01
• Series: Interventions Économiques pour une Alternative Sociale
• Subjects: atypical work; collective agreements; employment status; fractal inequalities; structural inequalities; treatment inequalities
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/1877

The current changes in the labour market take the form of an amplification of certain structural inequalities among different categories or groups and the emergence of new types of inequalities that we can classify as "fractal". They arise within a group with relatively homogeneous characteristics.Our article aims to underline and analyze these two types of inequalities. At first, we will address the structural inequalities resulting from the differential treatment of individuals based on employment status. We will present three types of inequalities, related to the employment status and whose foundations are largely connected to labour law: inequalities resulting from the exclusion of atypical workers from social protection, inequalities resulting from the different treatment during the working experience and inequalities resulting from the use of temporary agencies work.As a second step, we will analyze fractal inequalities, those taking place within the same category of people that we previously considered as homogeneous, offering an analysis of two groups defined on the basis of their educational level (young university graduates versus young people without qualifications).