Labour status and involuntary employment: family ties and part-time work in Spain

María Guilló and Alfonsa Denia Cuesta
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Alfonsa Denia Cuesta: Universidad de Alicante

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: The aim of the paper is a gender analysis of the extent to which parttime work represents an individual’s preferred labor market situation. The work includes a theoretical model that delivers some predictions about the household’s preferences over non-chosen employment states. Furthermore, it explores the impact of individual, family and job related variables on the probabilities of involuntary and voluntary part-time employment in Spain. The main empirical findings of the paper are: first, the model is sensitive to the chosen definition of (voluntary) part-time employment; second, there exist important gender asymmetries in labour market behaviour concerning the importance of the individual’s education and family characteristics; third, the marital status and having small children are important determinants of a woman’s probability of being voluntary part-time employed, whereas having grown up children or a temporary contract increases significantly a woman’s probability of involuntary part-time employment.

Keywords: part-time work; involuntary employment; family ties and labour supply. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C25 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2011-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-lab
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