Working, but poor: Increasing female labour participation and low income in urban Argentina
Abstract
The article aims to examine the phenomenon of low-paid workers and its link with the processes of labour market segmentation and gender inequalities in urban Argentina, from a structuralist perspective.
This paper relies on microdata from the Encuesta de la Deuda Social Argentina for the period 2017-2022. A descriptive analysis was carried out on the performance of the employment rate and the levels of incidence of low-income work for the period analysed. In addition, a multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the determinants of low-income employment. We conclude that women are more likely to be low-income earners than men, and that, in the context of a segmented labour market, this relationship is specified by looking at the type of occupational insertion of workers.
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