Comparing Precarious Employment Across Countries: Measurement Invariance of the Employment Precariousness Scale for Europe (EPRES-E)
Autor: | Mireia Bolíbar, Eva Padrosa, Joan Benach, Mireia Julià |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Vulnerability 050109 social psychology Sample (statistics) Comparative method Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anàlisi de variància Comparative research 0502 economics and business Human geography Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Measurement invariance Analysis of variance 050207 economics Dimension (data warehouse) Precarious employment 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Mètode comparatiu Europe Geography Scale (social sciences) Treball precari Demographic economics Europa Construct (philosophy) |
Zdroj: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona |
ISSN: | 1573-0921 0303-8300 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-020-02539-w |
Popis: | Comparing precarious employment (PE) across countries is essential to deepen the understanding of the phenomenon and to learn from country-specific experiences. However, this is hampered by the lack of internationally meaningful measures of PE. We aim to address this point by assessing the measurement invariance (MI) of the Employment Precariousness Scale for Europe (EPRES-E), an adaptation of the EPRES construct in the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). EPRES-E consists of 13 proxy-indicators sorted into six dimensions: temporariness, disempowerment, vulnerability, wages, exercise of rights, unpredictable working times. Drawing on EWCS-2015, MI of the second-order factor model was tested in a sample of 31,340 formal employees by means of (a) multi-group confirmatory factor analyses, and (b) the substantive exploration of EPRES-E mean scores in each country. The results demonstrate that threshold invariance holds for the first-order structure (dimensions) of 22 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK), but only metric invariance is attained by the second-order structure. The latter is supported by the exploration of mean scores, where we found that different score patterns in each dimension lead to similar overall EPRES-E scores, suggesting that PE is configured by different sources within the six dimensions in each country according to their broader socio-political trajectories. We conclude that, although EPRES-E can be used for comparative purposes in 22 European countries, the scores of each dimension must be reported alongside the overall EPRES-E score. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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