Women's Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe
The rate of involuntary part-time work among women has increased sharply.Scholars have demonstrated its links with diminished career opportunities,deteriorated working conditions, and low pay at an individual level. However,less attention has been paid to the effects of these contracts on economicse...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:286937 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/286937 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/13545701.2023.2251991 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Economic security Economic insecurity Poverty Involuntary part-time work Dualization Women and work |
| Sumario: | The rate of involuntary part-time work among women has increased sharply.Scholars have demonstrated its links with diminished career opportunities,deteriorated working conditions, and low pay at an individual level. However,less attention has been paid to the effects of these contracts on economicsecurity at the household level. This article investigates to what extent womenbeing in part-time work involuntarily hinders their household's ability to attainreasonable living standards and examines whether this would be any differentif women were in part-time employment voluntarily. The results show thatpart-time work in itself does not necessarily constitute a threat to householdeconomic security, but when it is involuntary, part-time employment jeopardizesa household's financial well-being. This occurs in countries that deregulatedperipheral corners of their labor markets, or "dualized" countries such as Italy,Spain, and France, and fully liberalized countries, such as Switzerland and theUnited Kingdom |
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