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The gendered nature of employment,
job quality & job insecurity in Northern
Ireland:
A story of continuity and change
6th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference, NUI Galway
22nd May 2018
Lisa Wilson
NERI (Nevin Economic Research Institute)
Belfast
lisa.wilson@NERInstitute.net
lisawilsonNERI
Outline
1. Rationale.
2. Conceptual basis/Literature
3. Aims of the study & Methods.
4. Findings.
5. Discussion & implications.
Rationale
• Increased attention being given to the decline of the
traditional ‘standard’ employment arrangements &
increase in ‘non-standard’ forms of employment - &
in turn more insecure & poorer quality jobs.
• Relatively little attention being given to the gendered
nature of these changes.
• Questioning of whether the spread of ‘non-standard’
employment and the growth of poor quality jobs mark
a ‘feminisation of employment norms’.
Insecure employment as a male problem
Aims of the study
(a) To examine changes and continuities in terms of gendered
patterns in the nature of paid employment and job security.
(b) To examine trends towards a ‘feminisation of employment
norms’ - marked through changes in the nature of
employment and an overall harmonising down of
employment security and quality.
(c) To consider the extent to which ‘traditional’ gender
inequalities continue to exist & the extent of change over
time.
(d) To consider the overall implications of findings for broader
issues including: precarious employment; job quality; women
in work; & future of work.
The traditional ‘standard’ employment
arrangement & the gender contract
• Broadly refers to employment which is full-time, regular,
direct with a single employer, with a contract of
permanent duration, reasonably stable hours, access to
social benefits & entitlements.
• Came to dominate post-World War II.
o Normative model of (male) employment with employment
regulation & legislation based on assumption that employment
would be ‘standard’ in nature.
• But never fully replaced all other forms of
employment….yet their inferiority was unquestioned,
invisible, unproblematic.
o Many of these were filled by women – ‘pink collar’ jobs.
o Gendered assumptions about the role of men and women in the
labour market.
The rise of the ‘non-standard’
employment arrangement…
• Increased participation of women in the labour
market.
• Globalisation & technological change.
• Deindustrialisation & the shift from manufacturing
to services.
• Deregulation & overall weakening of collective
bargaining rights.
A ‘feminisation of employment
norms’?
Coined by Vosko & Fudge (2003) to denote the erosion
of the traditional ‘standard’ employment relationship &
the spread of non-standard forms of employment that
exhibit qualities of employment traditionally associated
with women.
‘men experience downward pressure…much like that
typically associated with ‘women’s work’, while women
continue to endure economic pressure’.
‘patterns and processes amounting to convergence at the
bottom of the labour market’.
A ‘feminisation of employment
norms’?
Fudge & Vosko (2003: 458)
maintain that changing labour
market trends are:
‘both shaped by, and in turn shape
enduring gender inequalities both
inside and outside of the labour
market’
A ‘feminisation of
employment’ norms?
An overall convergence or ‘harmonising down’ in
nature of employment and security of employment
in a way that reflects that traditionally associated
with women…..
in the data we will see the most significant
changes for men…..
(Is this why we’re all talking about it?)….
…what does this mean for traditional
gender inequalities?
Method & analysis
To assess research aims the paper examined trends
over 20 year period 1996 to 2016:
o Participation in labour market.
o Rates of employment/unemployment.
o Working arrangements: Security of employment, full-
time/part-time, working hours, job quality.
o Where do workers work & what jobs do they do:
Sectoral & occupational patterns.
o Pay: low pay/high pay & gender pay gap.
• Using both the:
o Northern Ireland element of Quarterly Labour Force survey.
o Northern Ireland element of Annual Survey of Hours and
Earnings.
Participation in labour market
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
400000
450000
Oct-Dec '96 Oct-Dec '98 Oct-Dec '00 Oct-Dec '02 Oct-Dec '04 Oct-Dec '06 Oct-Dec '08 Oct-Dec '10 Oct-Dec '12 Oct-Dec '14 Oct-Dec '16
Female In Employment Female Unemployed Female Inactive
Male In Employment Male Unemployed Male Inactive
Working Arrangements
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
Oct-Dec '96 Oct-Dec '98 Oct-Dec '00 Oct-Dec '02 Oct-Dec '04 Oct-Dec '06 Oct-Dec '08 Oct-Dec '10 Oct-Dec '12 Oct-Dec '14 Oct-Dec '16
Male Self-employed Male Permanent Male Temporary Female Self-employed Female Permanent Female Temporary
Working Arrangements
169378
234834
115261
151692
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
400000
450000
Oct-Dec '96 Oct-Dec '98 Oct-Dec '00 Oct-Dec '02 Oct-Dec '04 Oct-Dec '06 Oct-Dec '08 Oct-Dec '10 Oct-Dec '12 Oct-Dec '14 Oct-Dec '16
Male FT Male PT Female FT Female PT
The gendered nature of
working hours
Involuntary temporary and
part-time employment
• 43% increase in the numbers in involuntary
temporary employment (2008-2016)
o Males & females at equal risk.
• 35% increase in the numbers that are involuntary
part-time employed (2008-2016).
o Men face higher risk of being involuntary p-t employed
(2017: 24% vs 10%).
Working Arrangements: Percentage in each
employment arrangement who are female
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
Permanent Part-time Temporary Part-time Self-employed PT
w/o employees
Temporary Full-time Permanent Full-time Self-employed FT w/
employees
Self-employed FT
w/o employees
%
1996 2006 2016
The gendered nature of
working hours
Male Female
2006 2016 2006 2016
Hours vary: Yes 16.6 25.7 13.4 29
Gendered share of labour market comprised of different
occupational skill levels, 1996-2017
36 32 34 36 35
28
46 51
41
44
53
59
18 17
26
19
12 14
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2016 1996 2017 1996 2017 1996
All Male Female
High skill Medium skill Low skill
High skill • Managerial, Directors, Senior officials
• Professional occupations
Level 3 • Associate Professional & Technical
• Administrative & Secretarial occupations
• Skilled Trades occupations
Level 2 • Caring, Leisure & other service occupations
• Sales & Customer service occupations
• Process, plant and machine operators
Low skill • Elementary occupations
Type of work: Percent in each occupation
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
1996
2006
2016
Managerial
&SO
Professional
occupations
Assoc.
Professional
&Technical
Admin.&
Secretarial
Skilled
Trades
Caring,
Leisure&
Other
Service
Sales&
Customer
Service
Process,
Plant&
Machine
Operatives
Elementary
Occupations
Female Male
The double pay penalty of being female
Based on data from Annual Survey of Hours & Earnings, 2016
The feminisation of employment
norms
• In last 20 years we have seen overall harmonising down
towards more insecure, poorer quality employment.
• Men’s work…. starting to look like what women’s work
has long looked like.
• But that doesn’t mean we need to concentrate on men.
• … Policy can learn a lot from the experience of women &
will need to.
Gender inequalities in employment –
a story of continuity and change
• Most significant changes appear in relation to
men…..but we need not forget about women!!
• Women continue to me more likely to be in insecure, part-
time, low-hour, variable hour employment.
• Women & men continue to dominate in traditionally male
or female dominated sectors & occupations.
• Women continue to face a double pay penalty….low pay
& gender pay gap.
Future of work
Focus has been on:
• Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robots & Automation
of work.
But the following will also be key:
• Trend towards employment being insecure/poorer
quality.
• Continued growth of services sector.
• Ageing population and increased care needs.
• Value of care work.
• Value of unpaid work.
Policy implications
• Need to focus on growth of insecure employment
& its implications.
➢ Will not correct this without recognising relative
positions of both male and females.
• Time for a new ‘social contract’ that recognises the
economic & social value of decent, well-paid
employment?
• Need to recognise that inequality in the home has
significant implications for inequality in the labour
market - and vice versa.
➢ Recent discussion of actions to lower/end gender
inequalities in work not going to be enough.
• We need a new employment strategy.
The gendered nature of employment,
job quality & job insecurity in Northern
Ireland:
A story of continuity and change
6th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference, NUI Galway
22nd May 2018
Lisa Wilson
NERI (Nevin Economic Research Institute)
Belfast
lisa.wilson@NERInstitute.net
lisawilsonNERI

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Lisa Wilson, The gendered nature of job quality and job insecurity

  • 1. The gendered nature of employment, job quality & job insecurity in Northern Ireland: A story of continuity and change 6th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference, NUI Galway 22nd May 2018 Lisa Wilson NERI (Nevin Economic Research Institute) Belfast lisa.wilson@NERInstitute.net lisawilsonNERI
  • 2. Outline 1. Rationale. 2. Conceptual basis/Literature 3. Aims of the study & Methods. 4. Findings. 5. Discussion & implications.
  • 3. Rationale • Increased attention being given to the decline of the traditional ‘standard’ employment arrangements & increase in ‘non-standard’ forms of employment - & in turn more insecure & poorer quality jobs. • Relatively little attention being given to the gendered nature of these changes. • Questioning of whether the spread of ‘non-standard’ employment and the growth of poor quality jobs mark a ‘feminisation of employment norms’.
  • 4. Insecure employment as a male problem
  • 5. Aims of the study (a) To examine changes and continuities in terms of gendered patterns in the nature of paid employment and job security. (b) To examine trends towards a ‘feminisation of employment norms’ - marked through changes in the nature of employment and an overall harmonising down of employment security and quality. (c) To consider the extent to which ‘traditional’ gender inequalities continue to exist & the extent of change over time. (d) To consider the overall implications of findings for broader issues including: precarious employment; job quality; women in work; & future of work.
  • 6. The traditional ‘standard’ employment arrangement & the gender contract • Broadly refers to employment which is full-time, regular, direct with a single employer, with a contract of permanent duration, reasonably stable hours, access to social benefits & entitlements. • Came to dominate post-World War II. o Normative model of (male) employment with employment regulation & legislation based on assumption that employment would be ‘standard’ in nature. • But never fully replaced all other forms of employment….yet their inferiority was unquestioned, invisible, unproblematic. o Many of these were filled by women – ‘pink collar’ jobs. o Gendered assumptions about the role of men and women in the labour market.
  • 7. The rise of the ‘non-standard’ employment arrangement… • Increased participation of women in the labour market. • Globalisation & technological change. • Deindustrialisation & the shift from manufacturing to services. • Deregulation & overall weakening of collective bargaining rights.
  • 8. A ‘feminisation of employment norms’? Coined by Vosko & Fudge (2003) to denote the erosion of the traditional ‘standard’ employment relationship & the spread of non-standard forms of employment that exhibit qualities of employment traditionally associated with women. ‘men experience downward pressure…much like that typically associated with ‘women’s work’, while women continue to endure economic pressure’. ‘patterns and processes amounting to convergence at the bottom of the labour market’.
  • 9. A ‘feminisation of employment norms’? Fudge & Vosko (2003: 458) maintain that changing labour market trends are: ‘both shaped by, and in turn shape enduring gender inequalities both inside and outside of the labour market’
  • 10. A ‘feminisation of employment’ norms? An overall convergence or ‘harmonising down’ in nature of employment and security of employment in a way that reflects that traditionally associated with women….. in the data we will see the most significant changes for men….. (Is this why we’re all talking about it?)…. …what does this mean for traditional gender inequalities?
  • 11. Method & analysis To assess research aims the paper examined trends over 20 year period 1996 to 2016: o Participation in labour market. o Rates of employment/unemployment. o Working arrangements: Security of employment, full- time/part-time, working hours, job quality. o Where do workers work & what jobs do they do: Sectoral & occupational patterns. o Pay: low pay/high pay & gender pay gap. • Using both the: o Northern Ireland element of Quarterly Labour Force survey. o Northern Ireland element of Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
  • 12. Participation in labour market 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000 400000 450000 Oct-Dec '96 Oct-Dec '98 Oct-Dec '00 Oct-Dec '02 Oct-Dec '04 Oct-Dec '06 Oct-Dec '08 Oct-Dec '10 Oct-Dec '12 Oct-Dec '14 Oct-Dec '16 Female In Employment Female Unemployed Female Inactive Male In Employment Male Unemployed Male Inactive
  • 13. Working Arrangements 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000 Oct-Dec '96 Oct-Dec '98 Oct-Dec '00 Oct-Dec '02 Oct-Dec '04 Oct-Dec '06 Oct-Dec '08 Oct-Dec '10 Oct-Dec '12 Oct-Dec '14 Oct-Dec '16 Male Self-employed Male Permanent Male Temporary Female Self-employed Female Permanent Female Temporary
  • 14. Working Arrangements 169378 234834 115261 151692 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 300000 350000 400000 450000 Oct-Dec '96 Oct-Dec '98 Oct-Dec '00 Oct-Dec '02 Oct-Dec '04 Oct-Dec '06 Oct-Dec '08 Oct-Dec '10 Oct-Dec '12 Oct-Dec '14 Oct-Dec '16 Male FT Male PT Female FT Female PT
  • 15. The gendered nature of working hours
  • 16. Involuntary temporary and part-time employment • 43% increase in the numbers in involuntary temporary employment (2008-2016) o Males & females at equal risk. • 35% increase in the numbers that are involuntary part-time employed (2008-2016). o Men face higher risk of being involuntary p-t employed (2017: 24% vs 10%).
  • 17. Working Arrangements: Percentage in each employment arrangement who are female 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Permanent Part-time Temporary Part-time Self-employed PT w/o employees Temporary Full-time Permanent Full-time Self-employed FT w/ employees Self-employed FT w/o employees % 1996 2006 2016
  • 18. The gendered nature of working hours Male Female 2006 2016 2006 2016 Hours vary: Yes 16.6 25.7 13.4 29
  • 19. Gendered share of labour market comprised of different occupational skill levels, 1996-2017 36 32 34 36 35 28 46 51 41 44 53 59 18 17 26 19 12 14 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 2016 1996 2017 1996 2017 1996 All Male Female High skill Medium skill Low skill High skill • Managerial, Directors, Senior officials • Professional occupations Level 3 • Associate Professional & Technical • Administrative & Secretarial occupations • Skilled Trades occupations Level 2 • Caring, Leisure & other service occupations • Sales & Customer service occupations • Process, plant and machine operators Low skill • Elementary occupations
  • 20. Type of work: Percent in each occupation 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 1996 2006 2016 Managerial &SO Professional occupations Assoc. Professional &Technical Admin.& Secretarial Skilled Trades Caring, Leisure& Other Service Sales& Customer Service Process, Plant& Machine Operatives Elementary Occupations Female Male
  • 21. The double pay penalty of being female Based on data from Annual Survey of Hours & Earnings, 2016
  • 22. The feminisation of employment norms • In last 20 years we have seen overall harmonising down towards more insecure, poorer quality employment. • Men’s work…. starting to look like what women’s work has long looked like. • But that doesn’t mean we need to concentrate on men. • … Policy can learn a lot from the experience of women & will need to.
  • 23. Gender inequalities in employment – a story of continuity and change • Most significant changes appear in relation to men…..but we need not forget about women!! • Women continue to me more likely to be in insecure, part- time, low-hour, variable hour employment. • Women & men continue to dominate in traditionally male or female dominated sectors & occupations. • Women continue to face a double pay penalty….low pay & gender pay gap.
  • 24. Future of work Focus has been on: • Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robots & Automation of work. But the following will also be key: • Trend towards employment being insecure/poorer quality. • Continued growth of services sector. • Ageing population and increased care needs. • Value of care work. • Value of unpaid work.
  • 25. Policy implications • Need to focus on growth of insecure employment & its implications. ➢ Will not correct this without recognising relative positions of both male and females. • Time for a new ‘social contract’ that recognises the economic & social value of decent, well-paid employment? • Need to recognise that inequality in the home has significant implications for inequality in the labour market - and vice versa. ➢ Recent discussion of actions to lower/end gender inequalities in work not going to be enough. • We need a new employment strategy.
  • 26. The gendered nature of employment, job quality & job insecurity in Northern Ireland: A story of continuity and change 6th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference, NUI Galway 22nd May 2018 Lisa Wilson NERI (Nevin Economic Research Institute) Belfast lisa.wilson@NERInstitute.net lisawilsonNERI