Recent Trend in Part-time Work in Spain and Italy: a Matter of Gender?

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI
Author/s Garcìa Pilar Ortiz, Laura Cosimi
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/1
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 125-143 File size 126 KB
DOI 10.3280/SP2015-001007
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This article discusses the development and features of part-time work in Spain and Italy to determine, from a descriptive analysis, the factors involved in its growth. The analysis of the part-time growing trend since 2007, emphasizes how such a contract type is serving as a factor of occupational adjustment in the direction of labor flexibility, which is laid down by the recent labor market reforms in both countries. Flexibility does not act as a neutral element, as it affects particularly women. Part-time work, which traditionally presents advantages to a group seeking reconciliation through flexibility, as in Northern Europe countries, seems not to be a totally valid explanation of its progress in Spain and Italy, countries participating in the social and labor policies in the South.

Keywords: Flexibility; Labour Market; Gender; Reconciliation; Labour Policies.

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Garcìa Pilar Ortiz, Laura Cosimi, L’evoluzione del lavoro a tempo parziale in Spagna e Italia: una questione di genere? in "SOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI" 1/2015, pp 125-143, DOI: 10.3280/SP2015-001007