Women's labour force participation and part-time work in Spain

Spain is one of the southern countries where the percentage of women working part-time is relatively low in comparison to other European countries, together with a low female activity rate. Some important obstacles to increasing female activity rates have already been removed, as younger cohorts of women show a more permanent attachment to the labour force than older women, meeting even high unemployment, which is especially acute for women and young people. Under the recent labour market reform, it is hoped that part-time contracts, which were first regulated in 1984, would be a way of facilitating flexibility and an incentive for employers to create jobs, as the experience of other countr…

Desigualdad de género en el trabajo doméstico en España : ¿Compartir el trabajo doméstico en pareja está condicionado únicamente por la racionalidad económica?

Este artículo analiza la desigualdad de género en el trabajo doméstico en España. Sigue siendo un debate abierto si el reparto del trabajo doméstico y el trabajo de mercado entre esposos y esposas está condicionado únicamente por la racionalidad económica o si existen otros factores relacionados con la identidad de género en la raíz de la desigualdad de género dentro del hogar. Esta contribución intenta evaluar el papel de la hipótesis de la neutralización de la desviación de género y examina si supera el poder explicativo de la teoría del intercambio económico en la distribución del trabajo doméstico no remunerado en España. Se construyen fronteras estocásticas de las tareas del hogar para…

Unemployment determinants for women in Spain

Spain has one of the highest rates of unemployment among OECD countries. Some explanations for this stress the importance of unemployment duration compared with entry rates to the unemployment pool. Long-term unemployment rates are particularly high among women in Spain. The object of this paper is to investigate the determinants of unemployment duration among women. It will consider personal characteristics (education and age), family background, socio-economic variables (the number of household earners and household income) and the effect of unemployment benefits, using data from the Household Expenditure Survey 1990 ±91.

Salarios de eficiencia y desempleo : evidencia empírica para el sector industrial

Wage premium in the industrial sector of the spanish economy : empirical evidence.

t. This paper presents evidence that firm-level productivity increases when the relative wage rises, or the level of unemployment rises. Both facts are consistent with the efficiency wage model. Moreover, there is support for the idea that an increase in the sector"s wage with respect to the previous year also increases productivity. We obtain the empirical evidence through a double-hurdle model. We use this estimation technique because it can be established that the differences in productivity between sectors could be explained by differences in effort. It means that some of the industrial sectors of the Spanish economy may pay wage premia while others do not. We also test this implication…