Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the association between the type of contract (temporary vs permanent) and the quality of work and its different dimensions before and after the economic crisis among Spanish employees. Design/methodology/approach Structural equations techniques are use...

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Autores: Bartoll, Xavier, Ramos Lobo, Raúl
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palavra-chave:Treball temporal
Crisis econòmiques
Qualitat de vida en el treball
Treball
Temporary employment
Depressions
Quality of work life
Labor
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spelling Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employmentBartoll, XavierRamos Lobo, RaúlTreball temporalCrisis econòmiquesQualitat de vida en el treballTreballTemporary employmentDepressionsQuality of work lifeLaborPurpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the association between the type of contract (temporary vs permanent) and the quality of work and its different dimensions before and after the economic crisis among Spanish employees. Design/methodology/approach Structural equations techniques are used to analyse the association between the type of contract and the work quality and its different dimensions before and after the crisis. Data are drawn from the 2006/2007 and 2009/2010 waves of the Encuesta de Calidad de Vida en el Trabajo. Findings The results show that in the two considered periods there are no differences in quality of work among male involuntary temporary workers and those with permanent contracts. However, there is an adverse widening gap across all dimensions of work quality for women in involuntary temporary employment during the economic crisis. There is also a shift among men and women in involuntary temporary employment from valuing intrinsic job quality dimension in the pre-crisis period to valuing more the work environment dimension during the crisis period. Research limitations/implications The analysis is limited by the continuity of variables across years and the high proportion of missing values in some variables. The obtained results cannot be interpreted in terms of causality. Originality/value This is the first study to consider whether the deterioration in the Spanish labour market during the crisis has affected the relationship between the type of contract and the different dimensions of the quality of work.Emerald2020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/153579Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-06-2018-0177International Journal of Manpower, 2020, vol. 41, num. 1, p. 37-51https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-06-2018-0177(c) Emerald, 2020info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1535792026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
title Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
spellingShingle Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
Bartoll, Xavier
Treball temporal
Crisis econòmiques
Qualitat de vida en el treball
Treball
Temporary employment
Depressions
Quality of work life
Labor
title_short Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
title_full Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
title_fullStr Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
title_full_unstemmed Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
title_sort Quality of work, economic crisis, and temporary employment
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bartoll, Xavier
Ramos Lobo, Raúl
author Bartoll, Xavier
author_facet Bartoll, Xavier
Ramos Lobo, Raúl
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author2 Ramos Lobo, Raúl
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Treball temporal
Crisis econòmiques
Qualitat de vida en el treball
Treball
Temporary employment
Depressions
Quality of work life
Labor
topic Treball temporal
Crisis econòmiques
Qualitat de vida en el treball
Treball
Temporary employment
Depressions
Quality of work life
Labor
description Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the association between the type of contract (temporary vs permanent) and the quality of work and its different dimensions before and after the economic crisis among Spanish employees. Design/methodology/approach Structural equations techniques are used to analyse the association between the type of contract and the work quality and its different dimensions before and after the crisis. Data are drawn from the 2006/2007 and 2009/2010 waves of the Encuesta de Calidad de Vida en el Trabajo. Findings The results show that in the two considered periods there are no differences in quality of work among male involuntary temporary workers and those with permanent contracts. However, there is an adverse widening gap across all dimensions of work quality for women in involuntary temporary employment during the economic crisis. There is also a shift among men and women in involuntary temporary employment from valuing intrinsic job quality dimension in the pre-crisis period to valuing more the work environment dimension during the crisis period. Research limitations/implications The analysis is limited by the continuity of variables across years and the high proportion of missing values in some variables. The obtained results cannot be interpreted in terms of causality. Originality/value This is the first study to consider whether the deterioration in the Spanish labour market during the crisis has affected the relationship between the type of contract and the different dimensions of the quality of work.
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International Journal of Manpower, 2020, vol. 41, num. 1, p. 37-51
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-06-2018-0177
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