Duncan Gallie's 1996-97 Annual Research Report

Duncan Gallie (Official Fellow) completed a comparative project examining the experience of employment and unemployment in Britain, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This involved a replication in the Central and East European countries of the Employment in Britain Survey (carried out together with Michael White of the Policy Studies Institute).

He has been working primarily on a research programme, funded by the EU under the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (TSER), examining the implications of unemployment and employment precarity for social exclusion. This involves the co-ordination of a project team drawn from eight countries. The project seeks to assess whether differences in welfare institutions between European societies have significant consequences for the quality of life and for the labour market behaviour of the unemployed. The research is making use of the European Community Household Panel surveys, which provide for the first time comparative longitudinal data on unemployment experience, income and sociability for all of the EU member states. He also has been responsible for the analysis of a cross-sectional survey, commissioned by DGV, which focuses on the experience of employment and unemployment in the EU. This has examined whether there are differences in the quality of working life between the Scandinavian and other European societies.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the British Household Panel Study (Essex) and the Comité Scientifique de l'Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Economies et les Sociétés Industrielles in France. He is a foreign representative for the editorial board of Sociologie du Travail. He served as a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the CNRS research programme ‘Travail et Emploi’.

Publications

‘New Technology and the Class Structure: the Blue-Collar/White-Collar Divide Revisited’ British Journal of Sociology, 47, 1996.

‘The Quality of Employment: Perspectives and Problems’ in A. Offer (ed.), In Pursuit of the Quality of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.