This article, based on some results of an ongoing study project, is aimed at analyzing the spread of flexible employment in Portugal as well as showing its diversity. The spread of flexible forms of employment is part of the processes of productive restructuring and labor market flexibilization in the context of growing competition in the global economy. By resorting to statistical data an analysis is carried out on the spread and development of the most relevant forms of flexible employment in Portugal, such as limited-time labor contracts, temporary labor, independent labor, and part-time labor. Flexible-job workers have much lower satisfaction levels than those with stable jobs. However, those jobs do not have homogeneous situations, but rather quite diversified circumstances that are presented through a typology of flexible-job situations and a typology of professional histories.
employment; flexibility; Portugal; types of flexible employment
