Comparing precarious employment across countries – measurement invariance of the employment precariousness scale for Europe

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• dc.contributor.author Padrosa Sayeras, Eva, 1993-
• dc.contributor.author Bolíbar, Mireia
• dc.contributor.author Julià, Mireia
• dc.contributor.author Benach, Joan
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-08T07:13:35Z
• dc.date.available 2024-03-08T07:13:35Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research leading to these results has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under grant agreements No. CSO2016-79103R and No. CSO2017-89719-R (AEI/FEDER, UE).
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• dc.identifier.citation Padrosa E, Bolíbar M, Julià M, Benach J. Comparing precarious employment across countries – measurement invariance of the employment precariousness scale for Europe. Soc Indic Res. 2021;154:893-915. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02539-w
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02539-w
• dc.identifier.issn 0303-8300
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59359
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Social Indicators Research. 2021;154:893-915.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-79103R
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/CSO2017-89719-R
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• dc.title Comparing precarious employment across countries – measurement invariance of the employment precariousness scale for Europe
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