as a result for employers nonregular employment is generally cheaper than permanent employment in addition to providing enhanced employment flexibility in a survey covering young people aged found that over of nonregular workers wished to become regular workers another survey covering people of all ages reported that only onefifth wished to become regular workers but the share of persons working in nonregular jobs because of slim chance of obtaining regular employment was considerably higher than in reaching for parttime workers for contract employees and for temporary agency workers indeed there is a lack of movement between the regular and nonregular segments of the labour force trapping large numbers of employees in lowpaying shortterm jobs with limited coverage by the social safetynet and limited opportunities to enhance their human capital