Employment Instability in Labour Trajectories. A Quantitative Analysis

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to show to what extent it is possible to
speak of the existence of permanently precarious or discontinuous
trajectories in Spain, beyond the well-known age effect. The available
variables for the 2001-2006 period coming from the Fundació Jaume
Bofi ll’s Inequalities Panel have been exploited by means of a cluster
analysis coupled with a logistic regression. The results of this analysis
show that gender and age are among the most important variables
when determining precarious trajectories. These results also seem to
point towards the existence of a generation gap in labour trajectories,
although the limited length of the available panel data does not make it
possible to state that this gap can be extended to any social profi le.