Among the main effects of the current economic crisis in Spain is the great loss of jobs, the unemployment rate exceeding 22%. In this situation, the actions of government aim to begin economic recovery and so create jobs. It affects the work quantity and not quality.The objective of this article is to measure the employment quality in the Spanish regions before and after the crisis. To achieve this goal, we use the P2 distance method to compose a Synthetic Dynamics Indicator of Quality of Work from 2000 to 2010. The study results show a deterioration in job quality in the different regions during the period accompanied by an increase in spatial polarization in terms of levels of job quality.

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los factores que más inciden en la determinación de la calidad del empleo dentro del contexto de la Unión Europea, adoptándose el enfoque de los indicadores sociales y empleando información objetiva y subjetiva. Partiendo de una batería de indicadores, se deriva un indicador sintético de calidad del empleo por medio de la metodología de la distancia DP2, que permite estudiar el papel de cada indicador en el indicador sintético y la situación de los diferentes países respecto a la calidad del empleo.

After the 2008 crisis, gender gaps in workers' health and well-being have persisted in different EU countries. Using 2010 and 2015 data from the European Working Conditions Survey, this paper estimates synthetic indicators by gender, considering workers' health status as well as environmental, organisational and psychosocial factors at work, by means of the P2distance measure. The study attempts to answer questions such as which countries evidenced the largest and smallest gender gaps in both years and where these gaps widened or narrowed in addition to what mechanisms support these results. Policies aimed at preventing and addressing occupational risks –in particular, psychosocial risks–would therefore be desirable to reduce these gaps.

Reseña de libro Ibáñez, M. (Dir.) (2017). Mujeres en mundos de hombres. La segregación ocupacional a través del estudio de casos. Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. ISBN 978-84-7476-732-2 Material original autorizado para su primera publicación en el Journal de Ciencias Sociales,