Are Secondary Part-Time Jobs Marginalized?
) (Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies) Abstract This paper aims at explaining to what extent women’s secondary part-time jobs have marginalized characteristics. Secondary part-time jobs are defined as jobs of less than 20 hours per week. Four clusters of job characteristics have been examined: characteristics related to wages and job security, the hours of work, working conditions, and workplace characteristics. Statistical analyses were carried out, using the 1996 Second European Survey on Working Conditions, which contains data on 6,802 female workers in 15 EU member states. The women employed less than 20 hours have been compared to the women employed 20 hours or over. The percentages of workers in secondary jobs vary between 2 and 24 percent of the female workforce in the member states. As far as wages and job security is concerned, the analyses show that indeed the women in secondary jobs are marginalized: they are found to be more often receiving no basic fixed incom
