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Employment Insecurity and Material Deprivation in Families with Children in the Post-Great Recession Period: An Analysis for Spain and Portugal
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between household employment insecurity and the risk of children's exposure to household material deprivation in Spain and Portugal. Specifically, using EU-SILC microdata for 2012, 2016 and 2020, it examines how this relationship evolved during th... view more
The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between household employment insecurity and the risk of children's exposure to household material deprivation in Spain and Portugal. Specifically, using EU-SILC microdata for 2012, 2016 and 2020, it examines how this relationship evolved during the Post-Great Recession period. Although in both countries there was an improvement in the employment situation of individuals and families after the Great Recession, the main findings reflect an increase in the risk of children's exposure to material deprivation in households where no adults have a secure job. However, there are some differences between the two countries. In the case of Spain, the results seem to indicate that the incidence of household employment insecurity on material deprivation was higher in 2016 and 2020 than in 2012. In Portugal, the increase in the effect of employment insecurity on deprivation seems to have occurred only in 2020, the year the Covid-19 pandemic began.... view less
Keywords
Spain; Portugal; well-being; child; economic crisis; poverty; private household; precarious employment; unemployment; family; recession; employment situation
Classification
Labor Market Research
Social Problems
Free Keywords
child well-being; household poverty; EU-SILC 2012; EU-SILC 2016; EU-SILC 2020
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Page/Pages
p. 444-457
Journal
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 45 (2024) 2
Issue topic
Special Issue on The Political and Economic Contexts of Families’ Financial Lives
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-023-09905-z
ISSN
1573-3475
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed