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This paper studies the working conditions of workers with different forms of typical and atypical work contracts. The paper uses the European Working Conditions Survey from 2005 and 2010 which allows following the trends over time. The study has two main goals. In the first part it aims to map the structure of working contracts with regard to socio-demographic and geographic structure of labour force. In the second part this study investigates the primafacie relationships between the work contracts and working conditions. Firstly, the main findings reveal that the use of the a/typical working contracts has changed between 2005 and 2010 and is conditioned especially by sector, region and workers' age. Secondly, the results do not support the thesis that atypical workers would be exposed to worse working conditions than typical workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]