The Gender Gap in Involuntary Part-time Employment: The Case of Spain

Alfonsa Denia () and María Guilló
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Alfonsa Denia: University of Alicante

No 20-2, QM&ET Working Papers from University of Alicante, D. Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory

Abstract: The high incidence of non-desired part-time jobs and temporary contracts after the Great Recession has become one of the most important drivers of the outstanding rise in income inequality in Spain during the last decade. We explore the determinants of involuntary part-time work in Spain over the period 2006-2014 and find that gender has a large, significant and robust positive effect on having that employment status, even after controlling for the type and duration of contracts, type of activity or occupation. A female worker is about 7.4 - 8.3 percent more likely to have a non-desired part-time job than a male worker with the same characteristics. Moreover, working in the Public Administration or having a temporary contract increases this probability over 10 percentage points. The results highlight the persistent precauriousness of the employment recovery in Spain and the need of a careful reflection on the next labor market reform.

Keywords: Gender; Involuntary part-time; Temporary contracts; non-standard employment; Great Recession. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C25 J10 J20 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2020-06-09
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