Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213790 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) [ISSN:] 2174-3835 [Volume:] 1 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] Colegio de Economistas de A Coruña [Place:] A Coruña [Year:] 2018
Publisher: 
Colegio de Economistas de A Coruña, A Coruña
Abstract (Translated): 
This paper compares the situation of immigrant women in the household labour market of Finland and Spain by using semi-structured interviews (in the cities of Helsinki and Murcia). Basic features of the labour and alien laws are stated, being more comprehensive and better enforced in Finland than in Spain. The interviews provide detailed information on the harsh conditions that immigrant women endured in Murcia, mostly due to overtime and the initial lack of social insurance. This contrasts with a formalized and professionalized market in Helsinki. However, on a monthly base, monetary income was lower in Helsinki than in Murcia. Changes in the Spanish alien laws have led immigrant women to register in the social welfare system producing an increase in the transparency in the traditionally opaque household labour market.
Subjects: 
Immigrant women
household work
labour conditions
labour and immigrant
JEL: 
J
J4
J42
Document Type: 
Article

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