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Part-Time and Temporary Employment: A Gender Perspective

In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy

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  • Tindara Addabbo

    (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

  • Donata Favaro

    (Università di Padova)

Abstract

This essay disentangles the inequalities in the take-up of non-standard work by gender as well as the gender differences in its determinants, and the factors conducive to the ‘choice’ of non-standard employment. With reference to part-time employment the estimates confirm the high weight of family structure variables affecting women in relation to part-time work. Meanwhile, involuntary part-time work turns out to be more likely to occur for women, for less well-educated individuals, and for people living in the South. This paper also deals with the evaluation of the costs connected to non-standard jobs: on average an hourly pay penalty is attached to temporary work both for men and for women, while for part-time work this penalty operates for women only. Part-time and temporary work are negatively related to the probability of holding supervisory positions, Attention is also devoted to other elements of well being like the access to medical and dental assessment and treatments, showing a higher probability of temporary workers having unmet needs, related to affordability. The latter is probably connected to higher income uncertainty for temporary employees, and can magnify the cost of holding a temporary job by affecting health outcomes.

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  • Tindara Addabbo & Donata Favaro, 2012. "Part-Time and Temporary Employment: A Gender Perspective," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Tindara Addabbo & Giovanni Solinas (ed.), Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy, edition 1, chapter 4, pages 53-75, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:06-04
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    1. Ulrich Walwei, 2014. "Times of change: what drives the growth of work arrangements in Germany? [Zeiten des Wandels: Was treibt das Wachstum atypischer Erwerbsformen in Deutschland?]," Journal for Labour Market Research, Springer;Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), vol. 47(3), pages 183-204, September.

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    Keywords

    part-time; temporary work; labour market segmentation; gender; health services; wage differential.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
    • J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality

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