Women's Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe
Maestripieri, Lara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	The rate of involuntary part-time work among women has increased sharply. Scholars have demonstrated its links with diminished career opportunities,deteriorated working conditions, and low pay at an individual level. However,less attention has been paid to the effects of these contracts on economicsecurity at the household level. This article investigates to what extent womenbeing in part-time work involuntarily hinders their household's ability to attainreasonable living standards and examines whether this would be any differentif women were in part-time employment voluntarily. The results show thatpart-time work in itself does not necessarily constitute a threat to householdeconomic security, but when it is involuntary, part-time employment jeopardizesa household's financial well-being. This occurs in countries that deregulatedperipheral corners of their labor markets, or "dualized" countries such as Italy,Spain, and France, and fully liberalized countries, such as Switzerland and theUnited Kingdom.
Grants:	European Commission. Horizon 2020 747433
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Economic security ; Economic insecurity ; Poverty ; Involuntary part-time work ; Dualization ; Women and work
Published in:	Feminist Economics, Vol. 29 Núm. 4 (2023) , p. 223-251

DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2023.2251991

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