Un análisis dinámico de la calidad del trabajo en España. Los efectos de la crisis económica

Abstract

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.

The Impact of the Crisis on the Polarization of Spanish Wages

“…Thus, the social tension risk could be accentuated in Spain since, as pointed out by Moral Carcedo et al, (2012), this increase in part-time work can be identified as an attempt to cushion the impact of the unemployment of the main breadwinner on households' income. Moreover, the high involuntariness of this part-time work shows a worsening of job quality in Spain (Merino Llorente et al, 2012) that makes it difficult to achieve the goals of the 2020 Strategy of the European Union. In addition, the less qualified groups in the Spanish labour force, almost the 50 percent of it, have been strongly punished by the economic recession, and have suffered higher employment destruction owing to the clear shortcomings of labour market and productive system in Spain (Garrido Medina, 2012).…”

Tourism jobs in demand: Where the best contracts and high salaries go at online offers

“…The work temporality and precariousness in Spain is directly connected to these characteristics. The high unemployment rate and successive labour reforms have influenced the consolidation of a “culture of temporariness and precariousness” ( Felgueroso, García-Pérez, & Jansen, 2018 ; Lorente-Campos & Guamán-Hernández, 2018 ) and the expansion of discontinuous labour trajectories ( Verd & López-Andreu, 2012 ); with the consequent worsening quality at work ( Merino-Llorente, Somarriba-Arechavala, & Negro-Macho, 2012 ). These last considerations affect the comparisons between countries, desirable for a better and more adjusted knowledge of employment in the tourism sector.…”

Employment exclusion in Spain: a territorial approach

“…In this sense, the four explanatory factors provided in this research complement the findings of other studies, such as the different educational levels [L opez-Bazo and Motell on (2013)] or the economic and institutional factors accounting for wage differences across regions [Davia Rodríguez (2013)]. Additionally, both the methodology used in the construction of the multidimensional indicator and the analysis perspective, based on the measurement of employment exclusion, are novel aspects with respect to the previously mentioned works carried out in Spain, either by being oriented to the measurement of the quality of employment [Merino Llorente et al (2012); INE (2018b)], or by adopting a microanalysis approach in relation to employment vulnerability [Felgueroso et al (2017); Felgueroso (2018)].…”

“…Additionally, INE has recently started to aggregate the information into a global index of quality of life, displaying results by autonomous communities and dimensions, such us employment, among others. Furthermore, Merino Llorente et al (2012) develop a Synthetic Indicator of Dynamic Work Quality for the Spanish autonomies. This indicator incorporates four dimensions (employment conditions, job conditions, labour relations and social policies), observing the regional convergency/divergency in terms of quality levels in employment between 2000 and 2010.…”