WP1: Theoretical paper about Social Vulnerability
Connected to WP1, there is the paper is entitled “Localising risks and vulnerability” and it is co-authored with prof. Costanzo Ranci (Politecnico di Milano). The paper explores the relationship between territorial fragility and social vulnerability, in order to explore how much the territory counts in explaining the exposure to the vulnerability of women and men. Aim of the paper is to go beyond the national level, focusing on vulnerability at the regional and urban level. It relies on a systematic literature review to investigate the role of localities in determining the exposure to social risks, one of the mechanisms behind the rise of economic insecurity in Europe. Territorial fragility is intersected with other dimensions of disadvantages (age, gender), to respect the intersectional perspective of the project. Paper still unpublished.
WP2: Social vulnerability gendered profiles
Connected to WP2, there is the paper entitled “A Job of One’s Own. Does Women’s Labor Market Participation Influence the Economic Insecurity of Households?”. This paper explores the role of household composition and the women’s labour market participation in explaining the economic insecurity of families in six countries, using EU SILC microdata. This article has been published in Societies, 8(7): 1-32 (OA Journal, indexed in WoS ESCI Sociology). This paper has been particularly useful to develop the index of economic insecurity, which has then been used in the following WP3.
A second paper, Maestripieri L. and Leon M. (2019) ‘So close, so far? Part-time employment and its effects on gender equality in Italy and Spain’ is also included in the work of WP2. Published in H. Nicolaisen, H. C. Kavli and R. Steen Jensen (eds.) Dualization of part-time work. The development of Labour Market insiders and outsiders. Bristol: Policy Press, 55-85. This paper demonstrates the relevance of analysing the involuntary part-time of women in southern Europe as an innovative contribution to the dualization debate. The analysis uses microdata from the European Labour Survey (2005-2016) and it exploits the intersectional perspective (age and education) to investigate the role of household composition in determining the type of part-time accepted by women.
WP3: Intersectional profiles and economic insecurity
Connected to WP3, there is the paper entitled “The role of women’s involuntary part-time in determining the economic insecurity of households across six countries in Europe”. This paper stems from the results of WP1 and WP2, to explore in detail the role of the type non-standard employment of women in determining the economic insecurity of households. Main source of data is the Eurostat EU SILC microdata 2016. It uses multinomial logistic models and counterfactual analysis to validate its results. Paper still unpublished.
