Peripheral labour in peripheral markets? Mobility and working time within transitional labour markets among women in Ireland and Spain

Cebrián, Inmaculada; Gash, Vanessa; Moreno, Gloria; O’Connell, Philip J.; Toharia, Luis

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“…4. In other work comparing patterns of labour market mobility and working time among women in Ireland and Spain, we used a nine-month cut-off as the basis for labour mobility variables and found a similar distribution to that reported here for Ireland, suggesting that the distribution of cases among the mobility categories is not particularly sensitive to the cut-off point (Cebrian et al 2000). 5.…”

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“…Women have far higher rates of labour mobility than men, and in most countries the large majority of part-time workers are women. More generally, it is argued that part-time employment is more accessible to labour market 'outsiders', groups that are excluded from, or exclude themselves from, full-time continuous employment (Fagan and O'Reilly 1998;Cebrian et al 2000;Schmidt 1998), e.g. the young, the old and those with histories of long-term unemployment, as well as women with domestic responsibilities.…”

Section: The Quality Of Part-time Jobsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this view there is a match between employers' needs for a flexible work-force in the secondary labour market and patterns of labour force participation that combine or juxtapose work and family roles. Thus, employers may design jobs that are not full-time and do not require fullcareer commitment, to match the supply patterns of those, mainly women, seeking to meet family demands while at the same time participating in the labour force (Cebrian et al 2000;Peck 1996).…”

Section: The Quality Of Part-time Jobsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Effects of Working Time, Segmentation and Labour Market Mobility on Wages and Pensions in Ireland

O’Connell¹,

Gash²

2003

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Most research on pay and benefit differences between full- and part-time work focuses on characteristics of part-time workers and part-time jobs. However, part-time jobs are more open to labour market 'outsiders', and such labour market mobility can influence wages. We analyse the effects of working time, gender, segmentation and mobility on wages and pension benefits in Ireland. Both segmentation and mobility influence wages directly, and controlling for segmentation in a wage model eliminates the negative effect of part-time working. The wage effects of labour market mobility differ by gender and labour market segment. Pension entitlement is strongly influenced by gender, working time, labour market segment and mobility. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2003.

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The Effects of Working Time, Segmentation and Labour Market Mobility on Wages and Pensions in Ireland

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Gash²

2003

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“…A first generation of papers, working with the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) estimate positive wage premiums for both genders, whether controlling or not for self-selection with probits (Cebrián et al, 2000, Pissarides et al, 2005Pagán, 2007). More recently, using data from the Continuous Sample of Working Histories (MCVL in Spanish), Fernández-Kranz and Rodríguez-Planas (2011) obtain (for 25 to 45 year-old women only) a wage penalty of 11.4 points, controlling for occupations and adding firm fixed effects.…”

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The part-time wage penalty: Does bargaining coverage outweigh regional differences in Spain?

Ramos

Sanromá

Simón

2016

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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Abstract:The use of part-time jobs is steadily increasing in most advanced economies. Previous literature has concluded that part-time workers suffer a wage penalty, but its magnitude varies across studies and countries. The part-time penalty is the otherwise unexplained element of the gap between full-time and part-time hourly earnings. One potential factor accounting for international differences in this penalty is the coverage of collective bargaining. This article outlines research examining wage differences between part-time and full-time male and female workers in Spain, a country with a very high level of coverage of collective agreements but very heterogeneous regional labour markets. Results are obtained using an econometric decomposition specifically adapted to matched employer-employee data. They show that intra-firm wage differentials for part-and full-time workers with the same characteristics are negligible. But results that are perhaps less expected are those based on the regional analysis -an unprecedented perspective compared with the previous literature. These results show that despite very significant differences in economies and labour markets, observed wage gaps between part-time and full-time workers in each Spanish region are also mainly explained by different endowments of individual, job and firm characteristics. Overall, our evidence highlights the over-riding role of wage setting mechanisms, specifically collective bargaining coverage, in minimising inter-regional differences in the wage penalty of part-time workers.JEL Codes: J31, J22, J41, R23

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“…For instance, Cebrián et al (2000Cebrián et al ( ) using 1994 European Community Household Panel (ECHP) household data obtained a positive wage premium of 12 log points for female part-time workers and of 30 log points for those working less than 15 hours per week controlling just for individual characteristics. In a later work, using 1995 ECHP data but including additionally job controls like sector and occupation, these authors did not obtain evidence of the existence of a wage penalty for part-time female workers (Cebrián et al, 2001).…”

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Full- and part-time wage differences in Spain: an analysis along the wage distribution

Simón

Sanromá

Ramos

2017

IJM

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Abstract:Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine wage differences between part-and full-time workers distinguishing by gender by using a large Spanish matched employer-employee data set and an econometric decomposition that permits to decompose wage differences by quantiles of the wage distribution.Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on cross-section matched employer-employee microdata from a large representative survey (the Encuesta de Estructura Salarial) which is carried out with a harmonised methodology common to all European Union member countries and that has been designed specifically to provide reliable evidence about characteristics of the wage distribution such us wage differentials associated with the type of working time. From a methodological point of view, the econometric decomposition technique proposed recently by Fortin et al. (2011) to decompose wage differences between part-time and full-time workers by quantiles of the wage distribution is applied. This methodology has the advantage over similar techniques that provides a detailed decomposition of wage differentials and has not been used before to examine the wage impact of part-time jobs. Findings:The results show that the significant raw wage gap that part-time workers experience in Spain differs substantially along the wage distribution. In the case of part-time females, the wage disadvantage is mostly explained by their relative endowments of characteristics (and particularly by their lower endowments of human capital and their segregation into low-wage sectors) but a significant wage penalty still persists, increasing along the wage distribution. In the case of males the wage disadvantage is only found in the lower part of the distribution and it is due both to their worst endowments of characteristics and a significant wage penalty. Research limitations/implications:The evidence for Spain shows that the part-time work tends to affect differently to the wages of males and females, with a higher part-time penalty for males, as predicted by the "flexibility stigma" hypothesis, and penalising low-qualified men in the lower part of the wage distribution and highqualified women in the upper part of the distribution the most. Originality/value:The analysis contributes to the literature by examining wage differences along the wage distribution for both genders using econometric decomposition methods, an aspect that to the authors' knowledge has been examined only scarcely in the international literature with non-conclusive evidence and has not been examined in previous studies for the Spanish case. In this vein, Spain is a particularly interesting analysis case from an international perspective of the wage consequences of part-time jobs, given that in contrast with most other advanced countries a majority of part-time employment in this country is involuntary and this phenomenon is especially affecting disadvantaged groups.

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Peripheral labour in peripheral markets? Mobility and working time within transitional labour markets among women in Ireland and Spain

Cited by 6 publications

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The Effects of Working Time, Segmentation and Labour Market Mobility on Wages and Pensions in Ireland

The Effects of Working Time, Segmentation and Labour Market Mobility on Wages and Pensions in Ireland

The part-time wage penalty: Does bargaining coverage outweigh regional differences in Spain?

Full- and part-time wage differences in Spain: an analysis along the wage distribution

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