Wage differentials within a female‐dominated occupation: Domestic workers in informal and flexible jobs in Portugal

Suleman, Fátima; Figueiredo, Maria da Conceição Torres

doi:10.1111/ilr.12065

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“…Furthermore, respondents that work via intermediaries do know that their situation is different (as they once signed a written contract agreeing to the terms and conditions), but struggle to point out how it is different without using more common terminology, like: “ this is like solo self‐employment ” or “ it's like a zero‐hours contract ”. While this finding rules in favour of launching educational campaigns that could increase awareness, we also identify other factors that stop workers from asking employers for social protection, which raise doubt over whether respondents will indeed start claiming their rights if they are made aware of them (Suleman & Figueiredo, 2018).…”

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“…Typically, respondents combine multiple small jobs at different households (21 work for ≥4 households), with most jobs consisting of 2 to 5 h on a weekly or biweekly basis. Having multiple employers may be associated with better working conditions, for example, higher wages, as it decreases dependency and boosts workers' bargaining power (Romero, 1988; Suleman & Figueiredo, 2018). On top of that, it enables workers to spread the risk of loss, meaning that a loss of working hours does not translate into a loss of all income.…”

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Excluded workers and exempted employers: A qualitative study on domestic workers' access to social protection in the Netherlands

de Kort,

Bekker

2024

Soc Policy Adm

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In the Netherlands, many part‐time domestic workers fall within the scope of a particular type of labour law, that gives them fewer social protection rights and that renders private actors (households and workers) responsible for exercising those rights. Over the years, this policy has been criticised for institutionalising the differential treatment of domestic workers, which goes against ideas propagated in international initiatives, like the European Pillar of Social Rights. This contribution explores Dutch domestic workers' access to social protection in greater detail. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with 30 domestic workers, we show that the actual access to social protection greatly varies over different workers and over different employment relationships of individual workers, but generally falls below par. Our findings indicate that this is partly due to the fact that the Dutch policy option underestimates domestic workers' wariness of placing demands on the households they work for, which raises questions over the desirability of non‐mediated employment relationships in the sector. We conclude with a brief discussion and suggestions for future policy directions.

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Excluded workers and exempted employers: A qualitative study on domestic workers' access to social protection in the Netherlands

de Kort,

Bekker

2024

Soc Policy Adm

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“…Sampling strategies used to investigate minority groups in populations in cross sectional studies usually involved a variety of non-probability recruitment strategies including purposive and convenience sampling [18,29,30]. Less common were cross sectional surveys of working sub population groups using probability sampling.…”

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Recruiting migrant workers in Australia for Public Health surveys: how sampling strategy make a difference in estimates of workplace hazards

Daly

Reid

2020

BMC Res Notes

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Objectives One third of the Australian work force are immigrants. Relatively little is known about working conditions for specific migrant groups. The objectives of this paper are to describe and compare the sampling strategies used to recruit migrant workers from specific migrant groups working in Australia into a cross-sectional study designed to produce population estimates of workplace hazards and self-reported health. Results Two cross sectional telephone surveys were conducted with immigrants currently working in Australia. Survey 1 used quota sampling from lists provided by a sample broker. Survey 2 used a combination of probability and non-probability sampling, including random sampling from telephone lists. Data from the surveys were weighted and comparisons made with unweighted data. While weighting adjusted for most differences across the sample sources, the likelihood of exposure to workplace hazards depended on exposure types and sampling strategies. We concluded that by using a combination of sampling strategies it is possible to recruit immigrants from specific migrant groups and provide a balanced view of working conditions, although no one strategy was best for all types of measures. Access to a robust sample source for migrants would enable a better perspective to migrant populations’ working conditions.

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“…Several European countries have made efforts to collect survey data that estimate the size of the paid domestic labor and report on their working conditions and economic impact. Although these surveys provide useful data and sectoral analyses, they are of an ad hoc nature (Abrantes, 2014;Jokela, 2019;Suleman & Figueiredo, 2018). In developing countries, little 1 3…”

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Making an invisible care workforce visible: a survey of domestic workers in three cities in China

Liu

2022

China popul. dev. stud.

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Domestic workers are a fast-growing segment of the labor force in China, but their work remains invisible. Using a respondent-driven sampling survey data collected in Beijing, Jinan, and Changsha during 2019 and 2020 (N = 2,20), this study provides socio-demographic and work profiles of domestic workers in these cities. Most domestic workers are rural women with junior-high-school or lower education. They are predominantly informal workers with no labor contract and have no access to labor rights protections and social security. A majority of domestic workers have done overtime work that is often underpaid or unpaid. Live-in domestic workers work excessive hours and earn significantly less per hour than their live-out counterparts. While the hourly wages of child and elder care workers are significantly lower than those of other domestic workers, the hourly pay of elder care workers is the lowest. Despite the working conditions, domestic workers have high levels of job satisfaction probably partly due to their low perceived value of paid domestic work. Policy implications of this study include the formulation of specialized laws to protect domestic workers’ labor rights and regulate family employers’ behaviors, improving informal domestic workers’ access to social security, change the social norms that devalue care work mainly performed by women, and collecting systematic statistics of paid domestic work.

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Wage differentials within a female‐dominated occupation: Domestic workers in informal and flexible jobs in Portugal

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Excluded workers and exempted employers: A qualitative study on domestic workers' access to social protection in the Netherlands

Excluded workers and exempted employers: A qualitative study on domestic workers' access to social protection in the Netherlands

Recruiting migrant workers in Australia for Public Health surveys: how sampling strategy make a difference in estimates of workplace hazards

Making an invisible care workforce visible: a survey of domestic workers in three cities in China

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