ABSTRACT
As discussed in Chapter 1, the ESeC schema is based on the employment relations characterizing different groups of socially similar occupations. As both Goldthorpe (2000) and Goldthorpe and McKnight (2006) have argued, the resulting class positions should discriminate in terms of economic security, economic stability, economic prospects and their consequences. We have already seen in Chapter 9 that this may be demonstrated in terms of poverty and deprivation, and in Chapter 10 we saw how class affects health outcomes. In terms of all three of the dimensions identified by Goldthorpe, the intensity of the risks of unemployment represents one of the most important potential consequences of employment relations. Therefore in this chapter we test the construct validity of the ESeC schema by examining whether individuals belonging to its different classes actually do experience diverse risks of becoming unemployed.
