Ict employment, over-education and gender in Spain. Do Information and Communication Technologies improve the female labour situation?

"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: New Technology, Work and Employment 25.3 (2010): 238-252, which has been published in final form at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2010.00251.x]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving."This paper investigates the extent to which ICT-related employment is improving the labour situation of women in Spain by reducing female over-education. Outcomes indicate no reduction in female over-education, nor does a woman’s marital status produce any significant differences. However, the best result is observed for ICT occupations linked to higher job quality characteristics

Working time flexibility components and working time regimes in Europe: using company-level data across 21 countries

Working time ?exibility comprises a wide variety of arrangements, from part-time, overtime, to long-term leaves. Theoretical approaches to grouping these arrangements have been developed, but empirical underpinnings are rare. This article investigates the bundles that can be found for various ?exible working time arrangements, using the Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work–Life Balance, 2004/2005, covering 21 EU member states and 13 industries. The results from the factor analyses con?rmed that working time arrangements can be grouped into two bundles, one for the employee-centred arrangements and second for the employer-centred arrangements, and that these two bundles are separate dimensions.Wealso tested the stability of the factor analysisoutcome, showing that although we ?nd some deviations from the pan-Europe and pan-industry outcome, the naming of the components as ?exibility for employees and ?exibility for employers can be considered rather stable. Lastly, we ?nd three country clusters for the 21 European countries using the bundle approach. The ?rst group includes the Northern European countries along side Poland and Czech Republic, the second group the continental European countries with UK and Ireland, and lastly, the southern European countries with Hungary and Slovenia