caa a22 4500 386395756 CHVBK 20180307112138.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400001823 doi S0047279400001823 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400001823 Hakim Catherine Workforce Restructuring, Social Insurance Coverage and the Black Economy [Elektronische Daten] [Catherine Hakim] The national insurance system of contributory work-related benefits was designed for a ‘core' workforce in continuous full-time employment. It provides incomplete coverage for the rising numbers of people in the peripheral workforce: part-time jobs, temporary work and self-employment. National estimates are presented for workers whose earnings are below the national insurance threshold, and who are thus excluded from social security benefits such as unemployment, sickness and retirement benefits—roughly 2 million in the period 1985-87. It is estimated that another million workers at least are within the NI net, but outside the income tax net. In addition, there are up to 2 million non-working people who have trivial earnings that leave them outside the NI and tax nets. Homeworkers are found in both these groups. The paper discusses the implications of these findings for claims about the size of the black economy and the characteristics of people participating in the black economy, and for the future development of the social insurance system. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 471-503 0047-2794 18:4<471 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001823 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400001823 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hakim Catherine NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/4(1989-10), 471-503 0047-2794 18:4<471 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge