Comparing inequalities in the labour market from a segmentation perspective

• Autores: López Roldán, Pedro; Semenza, Renata; Salvia, Agustín
• Año de publicación: 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: parte de libro
• Fuente: López-Roldán, P., Fachelli, S. (eds.). Towards a comparative analysis of social inequalities between Europe and Latin America. Cham : Springer, 2020
• Materia: SEGMENTACION; MERCADO LABORAL; DESIGUALDAD SOCIAL; DESIGUALDAD ECONOMICA
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

Fil: López Roldán, Pedro. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Instituto de Estudios del Trabajo. Centro de Estudios Sociológicos sobre la Vida Cotidiana y el Trabajo; España
Fil: Semenza, Renata. Università degli Studi di Milano. Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche; Italia
Fil: Salvia, Agustín. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina; Argentina
Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to carry out a comparative analysis of labour markets in Europe and Latin America from the perspective of segmentation in order to explain the processes of social inequality that arise in the workplace, in light of recent trends in global socio-economic changes. The chapter proposes two main objectives. The first is to perform a comparative descriptive analysis of the main features of labour markets among 60 European and Latin American countries. The second objective is to propose a model of comparative analysis of labour inequality from the theoretical perspective of the segmentation of the labour market and structural heterogeneity. We will focus our analysis by selecting two countries, Spain and Argentina, which both underwent a late development of capitalism. The following general hypothesis is formulated: Spain and Argentina, having clearly differentiated features in economic structure, level of development, institutional frameworks and socio-historical processes, show common dynamics in the structuring of the capitalist labour market between a primary and secondary segment. Using equivalent databases on the workforce a typology of segmentation of employment is constructed that show, in addition to the specificities of each country, the similarities in the structuring of the labour market.