Labour status and involuntary employment: family ties and part-time work in Spain
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Title: | Labour status and involuntary employment: family ties and part-time work in Spain |
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Authors: | Denia Cuesta, Alfonsa | Guillo, Maria Dolores |
Research Group/s: | Grupo de Estudios de Paz y Desarrollo (GEPYD) | Economía Laboral y Econometría (ELYE) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Teoría Económica | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico |
Keywords: | Part-time work | Involuntary employment | Family ties and labour supply |
Knowledge Area: | Fundamentos del Análisis Económico | Economía Aplicada |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas |
Citation: | DENIA, Alfonsa; GUILLÓ, M. Dolores. “Labour status and involuntary employment: family ties and part-time work in Spain”. Working Papers (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas). WP-AD 2011-11 |
Abstract: | The aim of the paper is a gender analysis of the extent to which part-time 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. |
Sponsor: | Financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología and Feder Funds under project SEJ-2007-62656. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/23702 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://www.ivie.es/pub/wp/wp.php |
Appears in Collections: | INV - GEPYD - Working Papers INV - ELYE - Working Papers INV - DMCTE - Working Papers |
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