Temporary Contracts and Work?Family Balance in a Dual Labor Market
A well established finding in the literature is that self-employment enables mothers to accommodate work and family needs better than organizational employment. This paper uses this result to investigate whether in a dual system of job protection women under temporary contracts face greater work-family conflicts than those under permanent contracts. The authors use data on women work and fertility histories from the Spanish Continuous Sample of Working Histories to analyze whether women under temporary contracts transition to self-employment upon motherhood more than those under permanent contracts. The analyses show that being under a temporary contract increases women's likelihood of transitioning to self-employment upon childbirth. The analyses also show that this is the result of voluntary transitions and not of the decision of employers to terminate a temporary contract upon motherhood. These findings reveal a hidden cost of temporary contracts: the higher difficulty to balance work and family.
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2013
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Authors: | Bonet, Rocio ; Cruz, Cristina ; Kranz, Daniel Fernandez ; Justo, Rachida |
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review. - School of Industrial & Labor Relations, ISSN 0019-7939. - Vol. 66.2013, 1, p. 55-87
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School of Industrial & Labor Relations |
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