Walking on broken glass: gender as predictor of job precariousness among young people in Spain

Juan Carlos Solano Lucas,Juan Antonio Clemente Soler,Marcos Bote Díaz,José Ángel Matínez López,Lola Frutor Balibrea

doi:10.7458/spp20219718810

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Abstract

Previous evidence reveals that socioeconomic factors, such as contract duration, occupation, activity sector, age, training, nationality, marital status or gender, lead to precariousness. This research looks into the intersectionality of inequalities in order to explain the impact of precariousness among young people based on gender. Data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (EPA) from 2005 to 2016 has been analyzed using logistic regression and hierarchical segmentation. Results suggest that the economic crisis has widened the gender gap in precarious jobs, such that currently, young women are more likely to face precarious situations as compared to young men.

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Academic consensus exists regarding the need to analyze changes in the labor market from a global perspective, taking into account the interconnections between economics and politics
The main objective of this article is to examine the different impact of precariousness employment based on gender
New types of contracts proliferated with characteristics of precariousness, which reduced the proportion of young people who are hired on a permanent basis

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Academic consensus exists regarding the need to analyze changes in the labor market from a global perspective, taking into account the interconnections between economics and politics. Within this perspective, Dahrendorf (2005) reflects the influence of global society on work, especially on women, including the expansion of part-time, temporary, independent work (not totally voluntary) and the different combinations between them. “The accumulation of capital on a global scale begets a global working class in the sense of an accelerated process of proletarianization” (Munck, 2013: 754). The uncertainty and unpredictability of job opportunities in the future make it difficult for students to avoid precariousness. Throughout the course of this systematic transformation, young people do not have even a minimum job security, regardless of their qualifications (Asçi, 2018)

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