Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain

Comet, Jacobo Muñoz; Steinmetz, Stephanie

doi:10.1177/0950017020902974

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“…Women 1 are grossly overrepresented in the lowest‐wage segments of the U.S. and EU workforce (European Commission, 2016; US Census Bureau, 2016). Although that is not necessarily the case in other countries (e.g., Bolivia, Canada, Cameroon, Colombia, Hungary and Vietnam; International Labor Organization, 2016), lower wages tend to be associated with more job insecurity (Campbell et al, 2007) and higher rates of temporary contracts, especially among immigrant women (Munoz‐Comet & Steinmetz, 2020). Most of the older literature focuses on the ‘breadwinner’ (see, e.g., Charles & James, 2005), that is, the household's main financial provider and labour market participant.…”

Section: Understanding Job Insecurity Through Vulnerable Employees' N...mentioning

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Vulnerable workers in insecure jobs: A critical meta‐synthesis of qualitative findings

Bazzoli

Probst

2022

Applied Psychology

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Job insecurity is a widespread workplace stressor that has been extensively investigated using quantitative approaches. With the use of a critical organisational psychology framework, we conducted a meta-synthesis of 20 qualitative studies to investigate the experience of job insecurity among vulnerable employee groups (i.e., women and immigrants). The qualitative metasynthesis results suggest that there are meaningful differences. Specifically, whereas women were more concerned with and exposed to deteriorating working conditions, men experienced job insecurity as a threat to their identity. Among immigrants, the experience of job insecurity is viewed as largely intersecting with the legal system, impacting their ability to remain in their country and making them feel powerless. Thematic evidence also emerged regarding individual actions that participants use to attain security in contrast to corporate strategies that enhance job insecurity. We contribute to the critical organisational psychology literature by discussing how these results test common academic theories and neoliberal assumptions pervasive within the job insecurity literature: We highlight how organisations manufacture job insecurity, question the existence of harmonious social exchanges, discuss the use

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Section: Understanding Job Insecurity Through Vulnerable Employees' N...mentioning

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Vulnerable workers in insecure jobs: A critical meta‐synthesis of qualitative findings

Bazzoli

Probst

2022

Applied Psychology

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“…Self-employment for migrants results in more hours of work, less stability, and lower income (Brynin et al, 2019). Additionally, self-employment, compared to full-or part-time employment is more likely to lead to unemployment (Munoz-Comet & Steinmetz, 2020). Self-employment also does not facilitate socialization and contact with the native-born population.…”

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Factors linked to accessing COVID‐19 recommendations among working migrants

Zlotnick

Dryjanska

Suckerman

2021

Public Health Nursing

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Objectives: Guided by the Health Belief Model (HBM), this study explored factors associated with accessing COVID-19 health information. Design/sample: A cross-sectional study design was used. Sample: Migrants (n = 259) employed in Israel prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were recruited. Measurements: The on-line questionnaire included: The Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Brief Resilience Coping Scale and Immigrants' Language Ability scale. Results: Migrants obtaining COVID-19 information when issued were more likely to have decreased employment or unemployment after COVID-19 government restrictions (OR = 1.98; CI = 1.03, 3.89; p < .05) and more likely to have a better language ability (OR = 1.20; CI = 1.10, 1.32, p < .0001), but they were less likely to use family and/or friends as their COVID-19 health resource (OR = 0.54, CI = 0.30, 0.96; p < .05). Migrants encountering the most employment difficulties were: female (p < .05), older age (p < .05), unmarried (p < .01), with unstable finances (p < .0001), and in Israel less than 5 years (p < .01).Conclusions: Migrants with more precarious employment had more societal disadvantage (i.e., women, older age, unmarried, poorer socioeconomic status, and newer migrants) and relied on informal and potentially inaccurate, health sources. Public health officials aiming to decrease COVID-19 infection must improve health information access to all members of society, particularly at-risk groups such as migrants.

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“…First, labour force segments and occupational classes, with a focus on low educated women, as the importance of processes of labour market segmentation and occupational polarisation and their effects on women's vulnerability has been highlighted by other research work (Sánchez-Mira, 2019;Távora and Rodríguez-Modroño, 2018). Second, ethnic divides, as the differentiated allocation of migrants to labour market structures has been shown by analyses on the employment trajectories of migrant women (Muñoz-Comet and Steinmetz, 2020). Third, regional differences, as the uneven impact of the crisis on local labour markets has been observed (Addabbo et al, 2015).…”

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Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain

Insarauto

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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This article studies women’s vulnerability to the economic crisis of 2008 through the lens of part-time work in Spain. It posits that part-time work made the female employment position more fragile by acting as a transmission mechanism of traditional gender norms that establish women as secondary workers. This argument is tested through an analysis of Labour Force Survey data from 2007 to 2014 that examines the influence of the employment situation of the household on women’s part-time employment patterns. The results expose the limited take-up of part-time work but also persistent patterns of involuntariness and underemployment corresponding to negative household employment situations, highlighting the constraining role of gender norms borne by the relative position of part-time work in the configuration of employment structures. The article concludes that, during the crisis, part-time work participated in the re-establishment of women as a family dependent and flexible labour supply, increasing their vulnerability.

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Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Vulnerable workers in insecure jobs: A critical meta‐synthesis of qualitative findings

Vulnerable workers in insecure jobs: A critical meta‐synthesis of qualitative findings

Factors linked to accessing COVID‐19 recommendations among working migrants

Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain

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