The focus of the Chapter is on part-time and temporary work; we analyse these two different types of ‘non-standard’ work from a gender perspective. Our interest in these types of non-standard work is justified by their increasing weight with respect to total employment in Italy. At the same time the over-representation of women in jobs of this type – especially part-time work - and the risks of employment segregation to the disadvantage of women, as outlined by the literature, require a gender perspective. We try to disentangle not only the inequalities in the take-up of non-standard work by gender but also the gender differences in the determinants, and the factors conducive to the ‘choice’ of non-standard employment. We apply different microeconometric models.
Part-time and Temporary Employment: A Gender Perspective
FAVARO, DONATA;
2012
Abstract
The focus of the Chapter is on part-time and temporary work; we analyse these two different types of ‘non-standard’ work from a gender perspective. Our interest in these types of non-standard work is justified by their increasing weight with respect to total employment in Italy. At the same time the over-representation of women in jobs of this type – especially part-time work - and the risks of employment segregation to the disadvantage of women, as outlined by the literature, require a gender perspective. We try to disentangle not only the inequalities in the take-up of non-standard work by gender but also the gender differences in the determinants, and the factors conducive to the ‘choice’ of non-standard employment. We apply different microeconometric models.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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