Modelling part-time employment in Spain: do women opt for fewer hours or do they have no choice?

Huete-Morales, María Dolores; Vargas-Jiménez, M.

doi:10.1080/09589236.2017.1316248

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“…This restriction is called prime age, and is adopted to focus on the most active stratum of population in the labour market. For instance, see [30]. (b) We restrict the analysis to data from countries of Southern Europe, where the gender gap in economic participation and opportunity is larger than in North Europe [31].…”

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Gender inequalities at work in Southern Europe

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Guglielmi

Maestripieri

2023

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Despite a long-term trend towards reduction, the gender gap in employment keeps standing in Southern Europe. Numerous potential causes have been individuated, such as the household configuration, women’s human capital, or the institutions that regulate the labour market. Less is known about the role of the locality. This paper explores what covariates influence women’s access to labour markets, and whether it is unevenly distributed across different countries and regions in Southern Europe. The analysis is based on the dataset round 9 (2018) from the European Social Survey. We focus on the following countries available in the dataset: Cyprus, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Italy and Spain are further differentiated into vulnerable and affluent regions according to the regional GDP in 2018. We apply a regression model for the binary response that is the indicator of having been doing paid work for the last 7 days of each individual in the sample. We adopt the Bayesian approach, to derive conclusions via a whole probability distribution, i.e., the posterior of all parameters, given data. The statistical goal is the selection of the most important covariates for access to the labour market, focusing on gender differences. Our analysis finds out that individual characteristics are mediated by household composition. Even though higher education increases women’s employment, the presence of children and having an employed partner reduce such involvement. Moreover, a larger gender gap is detected in vulnerable regions rather than affluent ones, especially in Italy.

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Gender inequalities at work in Southern Europe

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Guglielmi

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2023

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“…Huete-Morales and Vargas-Jiménez (2017) analysed if Spanish women choose part-time work out of their own choice or they do it because they have no other alternative if they want to get hired, and they conclude '… women, under all circumstances present a greater propensity to part-time employment than men, whether they wish to work the same, or more or fewer hours than they do at present and whatever their marital status. Accordingly, this discrimination can no longer be explained in terms of assumptions related solely to women´s central position or role within the family or merely by their wish to devote less time to gainful employment ' .…”

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Part-time work and retirement in Spain, towards a system without gender discrimination

Carpio

Domínguez‐Fabián

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International Journal of Discrimination and the Law

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In Spain, part-time work is considered female, given that 73% of this type of work contract is carried out by women. The conditions for accessing and calculating the retirement pension for part-time workers have been modified in recent years. This has been the result of several judgments of European courts that conclude the existence of indirect gender discrimination. This paper analyses the measures that have been regulated after the aforementioned judgments to assess whether indirect gender discrimination has disappeared from the social protection system in Spain. This paper highlights the effect of the regulatory changes, some of them since 2019, and points out some pending issues, that if they were carried out, would ensure gender discrimination is effectively eliminated.

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Women’s Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe

Maestripieri

2023

Feminist Economics

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Modelling part-time employment in Spain: do women opt for fewer hours or do they have no choice?

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

Gender inequalities at work in Southern Europe

Gender inequalities at work in Southern Europe

Part-time work and retirement in Spain, towards a system without gender discrimination

Women’s Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe

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