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Women's Labour Force Participation and Part Time Work in Spain
Author(s) -
Lázaro Nieves,
Moltó MariaLuisa,
Sánchez Rosario
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00045
Subject(s) - novelty , incentive , flexibility (engineering) , unemployment , work (physics) , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , labour market flexibility , paid work , unemployment rate , working time , working hours , economic growth , psychology , market economy , mechanical engineering , social psychology , management , engineering
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 countries has shown. The relative novelty of part‐time work in Spain is the reason why this typically female employment regime has not been much explored in Spain yet, in spite of its important role in the reorganisation of the employment system.