Should We Care about Part-Time Work from a Poverty Perspective? An Analysis of the EU15 Countries

Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive

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“…This analysis focuses on part‐time and temporary employment, as the most prevalent forms of NSE with consistent definitions over time and across countries. Furthermore, I distinguish between voluntary and involuntary part‐time employment, because employees working fewer hours than they would prefer are in an especially precarious situation with a high poverty risk (Horemans & Marx, 2013). Past research suggests that individuals from disadvantaged socio‐economic backgrounds, such as young people, migrants, and the less educated, are overrepresented in NSE (Barbieri, 2009).…”

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Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe

Haapanala

2021

Soc Policy Adm

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Spending on active labour market policies (ALMPs) has increased across Europe following the 2007 flexicurity strategy which emphasised smooth and rapid transitions from unemployment to work. Despite broad scholarly coverage of the activation turn, the connection between labour market policies and changes in non‐standard employment remains unclear. Applying random effects within‐between regression analysis, this paper finds that coercive, ‘hard’ ALMP instruments incentivising rapid re‐employment with the threat of withdrawing unemployment benefits are associated with higher likelihood of involuntary part‐time employment, whereas supportive, ‘soft’ ALMP strategies with a focus on upskilling and public sector occupation are associated with higher voluntary but lower involuntary part‐time employment. The results from 25 countries over two decades shed light on the heterogeneous results of past ALMP research which has not adopted a consistent line on the supportive‐coercive dichotomy. With European employment policy increasingly applying hard activation instruments to achieve full employment, an unintended consequence might be the expansion of precarious employment.

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Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe

Haapanala

2021

Soc Policy Adm

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“…Relatedly, as welfare states influence the extent to which workers’ livelihoods are dependent on involvement in paid work, social protections may mitigate the negative financial consequences of involuntary underemployment, with potential consequences for workers’ well-being. Poverty risks are particularly high for workers in involuntary part-time employment, and the probability that part-time workers will be in low-paid work is highest in Mediterranean countries, which also have the highest rates of involuntary part-time employment (Horemans and Marx, 2013). Social transfers can counteract poverty risks to an extent, but this is most apparent in countries associated with the inclusive employment regime type.…”

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Underemployment and well-being in Europe

Heyes

Tomlinson

2020

Human Relations

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This article examines the consequences of underemployment for the well-being of workers in European countries. Previous studies of the impact of underemployment on well-being have tended to focus on a single country or occupational group and have examined single dimensions of underemployment. This article, by contrast, examines experiences across several European economies and explores two different dimensions of underemployment: the gap between hours of work and workers’ desired hours and the underutilisation of their skills and abilities. The article uses data from the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) and explains the consequences of underemployment for well-being by drawing on the international comparative political economy literature, particularly the theorisation and analysis of comparative employment and welfare regimes. We find that while underemployment is generally associated with lower levels of well-being, the nature and strength of relationships between different dimensions of underemployment and well-being vary between employment regimes. The article also highlights the detrimental consequences of ‘overemployment’ for workers’ well-being, and shows that the well-being of women tends to be lower than that of men, regardless of employment regime.

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“…Studies die België internationaal vergelijken, tonen aan dat het loonverschil tussen deeltijds en voltijds werkenden relatief beperkt blijft, zowel bij mannen als bij vrouwen (Manning & Petrongolo, 2005;Matteazzi, Pailhé & Solaz, 2013;O'Dorchai et al, 2007). Ook blijkt het armoederisico dat samenhangt met een deeltijdbaan, in een Europees vergelijkend perspectief relatief beperkt in België (Horemans & Marx, 2013).…”

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België: een unieke deeltijdeconomie in Europa

Horemans¹

2016

Tijdschrift Voor Arbeidsvraagstukken

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Deeltijdwerk biedt de kans om bij belangrijke levenslooptransities een link met de arbeidsmarkt te behouden. Dit maakt deeltijdbanen in Europa tot een van de drijvende krachten achter de toename in het aantal werkenden tijdens de voorbije decennia. Deeltijdarbeid is echter zeer heterogeen, aangezien een vermindering van de arbeidsprestatie onder verschillende voorwaarden kan gebeuren, wat belangrijke verschillen tussen landen tot gevolg heeft. Dit artikel onderzoekt eerst of deeltijdwerk unieke kenmerken vertoont in België, een onderbelichte casus wat betreft deeltijdwerk. We maken hiervoor gebruik van data van de European Labour Force Survey en vergelijken de Belgische situatie met de situatie in Nederland en andere Europese landen. Ten tweede gaat dit artikel na of het sociaal beleid mede ondersteunend heeft gewerkt bij de recente groei van deeltijdwerk bij specifieke groepen in België. Op basis van administratieve gegevens wordt beargumenteerd dat het specifieke karakter van deeltijdwerk in België samenhangt met de ondersteuning waarin binnen het werkloosheidssysteem voorzien wordt. In België is deeltijdwerk meestal vrijwillig, wordt het vaker gedaan door oudere werknemers en is het verschil in werkuren beperkt in vergelijking met voltijdwerk. We concluderen dat deeltijdwerk in België gemiddeld een relatieve hoge baankwaliteit kent omdat er vanuit een transitionele arbeidsmarkt logica-specifieke ondersteuning bestaat voor deeltijders.

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Should We Care about Part-Time Work from a Poverty Perspective? An Analysis of the EU15 Countries

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Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe

Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe

Underemployment and well-being in Europe

België: een unieke deeltijdeconomie in Europa

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