Economic growth, labour flexibilization and employment quality in Colombia, 2002–11

Farné, Stefano; Vergara, Carlos Andrés

doi:10.1111/j.1564-913x.2015.00241.x

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“…It was shown in a study conducted in Colombia that self-employed women reported improvements in the quality of employment evaluated by parameters such as: (1) social security coverage, (2) earnings, (3) social dialogue, (4) job satisfaction, and (5) reconciling work and family life. Earnings were identified as the factor most relevant to improving the quality of employment (Farné and Vergara, 2015).…”

Section: Working In Nonstandard Forms Of Employment According To Gender: Results Of a Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, these forms are considered to have the characteristics of precarious employment, indicating a low degree of meeting employee interests (Jacquemond and Breau, 2015). Furthermore, the benefits of the use of nonstandard forms of employment for women are highlighted by the possibility of more flexibility combining work with family life, creating the conditions for the labor activation of women, and, in some nonstandard forms of employment, such as self-employment, the possibility of meeting employees' business ambitions and earning higher incomes (Tonkikh et al, 2019;Buribayev and Khamzina 2019;Farné and Vergara 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Women Working in Nonstandard Forms of Employment: Meeting Employee Interests

Bąk-Grabowska¹,

Cierniak–Emerych²,

Dziuba³

et al. 2021

ERSJ

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Purpose:The main aim of this article was to present characteristics of the employment of women working in nonstandard forms of employment in Poland considering employee interests. Design/Methodology/Approach: Based on the narrative literature review, hypotheses and research questions were formulated and the meaning of key categories was clarified. Data for the analysis were derived from quantitative research conducted using the CAWI technique. The survey was conducted on a representative sample of 1,000 working Poles. The analysis of the results was performed using the methods of descriptive statistics and statistical tests to check the correlations between variables. Findings: The research results did not confirm the beneficial effect of nonstandard forms of employment on the labor activation of women. Women do not work in these forms more often than men, but they are more frequently employed involuntarily. The possibility to choose the form of employment is linked to a better meeting of the interests of working women. In the standard forms, women's interests that are satisfied include employment stability, protection and access to social benefits, health services at the employer's expense, good occupational safety and health, training at the employer's expense and assistance during redundancy. In nonstandard forms, these mainly include a good atmosphere and the possibility to influence working time organization. Practical Implications: The results of the research can be used in making the decisions of political character, concerning the applicability and share of particular forms of employment in the labor market. From the perspective of usefulness to employers, important results were obtained concerning the possibilities of choosing the form of employment and meeting specific interests of women. Originality/value: Previous research results have been relatively often based on secondary data from labor markets. A survey questionnaire was used in this project. Original and representative research results were obtained on women's work in nonstandard forms of employment in Poland, taking into account the criteria of voluntariness, type of forms and meeting of employees' interests.

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Section: Working In Nonstandard Forms Of Employment According To Gender: Results Of a Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women Working in Nonstandard Forms of Employment: Meeting Employee Interests

Bąk-Grabowska¹,

Cierniak–Emerych²,

Dziuba³

et al. 2021

ERSJ

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“…7 We selected two types of groups; 8 the dimension used for considering the homogeneity of each group was the segment of the labor market in which the members participate. The reason for this is that the labor market segmentation is fairly strong between low and high quality jobs (Farné and Vergara 2015;Combarnous and Deguilhem 2016). In addition, this dimension is linked with income and socioeconomic strata, which summarizes most of the institutional differences in Colombia.…”

Section: Quantitative and Qualitative Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Confronted with this contrasting literature reviews, we built an original theoretical framework to explain why these heterogeneous results have been observed. We started from the idea of heterogeneity between different social groups in terms of ex post job quality, and we assumed that a clear distinction exists between high and low job quality groups in the labor market (Farné and Vergara 2015;Combarnous and Deguilhem 2016). To obtain a job, a worker may have used different means with distinct effects depending on his group (Bentolila et al, 2010).…”

Section: Quantitative and Qualitative Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this way, using the quality of employment concept 1 seems crucial (Osterman 2013;Burchell et al 2014). This multidimensional approach holds a considerable interest, allowing for the precise analysis of employment forms and their further evolution while abandoning the classical typologies of the labor markets in a developing context (Floro and Messier 2011;Farné and Vergara 2015;Combarnous and Deguilhem 2016). In developed countries, few studies have emphasized the relation between social networks and quality of employment (Granovetter [1974(Granovetter [ ] 1995.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using your ties to get a worse job? The differential effects of social networks on quality of employment in Colombia

Deguilhem

Berrou

Combarnous

2019

Review of Social Economy

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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an original and multidimensional measure of job quality and a fruitful estimation of the effect of social networks on QoE that allows for dealing with complex inter-groups heterogeneity. Using the Great Integrated Household Survey (GIHS) and a sample on Bogota's workers in 2013, they provide empirical support that the use of ties is negatively correlated with the QoE for those who are vulnerable. Likewise, the use of social relations is not significant for protected workers. Complemented by focus groups interviews, these results raise questions about the difference prevailing in relational practices between necessity networks for precarious workers and opportunity networks for protected workers in the Colombian capital.

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