Socioeconomic conditions in domestic employment in Spain: study through the microdata of the life conditions survey

Abstract

 This work is the complementary part of the double legal-economic study on domestic employment in Spain which has been made for this special issue. It is now address, once the legal-labor regime and the personal conditions of domestic workers have been analyzed, what is the translation of those circumstances -characterized by instability, precariousness, low wages, physical overwork, etc., - to the socio-economic situation of these workers and, especially, of their homes. For this, the analysis addresses a multitude of indicators such as the situation or not of social exclusion, of material deprivation, as well as the rest that the Life Conditions Survey contributes not directly integrated in the previous two.