Double invisibilitythe effects of hidden unemployment on vulnerable populations in southern European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

  1. Coco-Prieto, Andrés 2
  2. Simó-Solsona, Montserrat 2
  3. Suárez-Grimalt, Laura 1
  1. 1 ESOMI-Universidade da Coruña
  2. 2 Universitat de Barcelona
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    Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/021018s57

Revista:
RES. Revista Española de Sociología

ISSN: 2445-0367 1578-2824

Ano de publicación: 2022

Volume: 31

Número: 4

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.22325/FES/RES.2022.132 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

The COVID-19 crisis has been characterised by an increased fragility of the labour market, especially in the Southern European countries. Nevertheless, official data do not accurately capture the real upheavals of their labour markets. In this context, this paper compares the labour market performance of vulnerable populations (youth, women and migrants) in three Southern European countries with a cross-analysis of data over time. To this end, we have developed an alternative hidden unemployment indicator that recovers and includes unemployed persons from the categories of involuntary underemployment and inactivity. Our analyses include data from Spain, Portugal, and Italy, and take the European Union-Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) as their basis. Our results show that the impact of unemployment in the South of Europe is best measured when using an extended indicator, particularly when analysing the cases of vulnerable collectives. This tool shows great analytical potential for unveiling hidden unemployment in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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