I would like to but I cannot. The determinants of involuntary part-time employment: Evidence from Italy

Gianluca Busilacchi (), Giovanni Gallo and Matteo Luppi ()

Center for the Analysis of Public Policies (CAPP) from Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: Over the last two decades, involuntary part-time (IPT) employment has become a more and more pressing issue in Europe, especially in the southern countries, where IPT today constitutes most part-time employment. The dualistic nature of voluntary and involuntary employment creates an opportunity to investigate this type of occupation by looking at the intersection between dualisation and gender. Using INAPP-PLUS data and Probit estimations, this paper aims to shed light on whether the determinants of IPT – at the individual, household and labour market levels – follow the trend of labour dualisation, compared to part-timers in voluntary arrangements. In particular, we aim to determine how dualisation related to these determinants varies according to gender and labour market structural changes. Our results confirm that individual and household characteristics count more than professional ones in determining IPT status, especially concerning the well-known gender differences. However, differentiating the analysis by workers' gender highlights interesting differences pointing at a growing polarisation for female workers driven not only by inequality in the work-family balance distribution but also by structural elements in the labour market.

Keywords: Involuntary part-time; gender inequality; dualisation; job determinants; labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J40 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 30
Date: 2022-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hrm, nep-iue and nep-lab
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