La flexibilisation de lemploi par la ménagement du temps de travail

This paper deals with job quality in terms of job statuses, working time, working hours arrangements (flexible hours, week-end work, evening work, night work). In the context of flexicurity developed by the European Commission, this paper shows gender inequalities on job quality in a different light, and also can question about the balance work/life. We realise a cluster analysis of workers with these three dimensions of job quality from the French labour survey, enquête Emploi, and we compare this analysis between 1993 and 2002. In the first time, results show a segmentation of the labour market in various categories, into different clusters far from a simplistic vision good jobs versus bad jobs. Differences between men and women are very important in our findings. In the second time, a comparison between 1993 and 2002 focuses on two issues. On the one hand, the relations between job statuses, working time, and working hours arrangements persist. On the other hand, we highlight the growth of work flexibility and the deterioration of job quality. Women are particularly affected by the deterioration and mainly about types of hours.