Mécanismes économiques expliquant les bas salaires dans les services à la personne: une analyse centrée sur les aides à domicile

François-Xavier Devetter () and Emmanuelle Puissant ()
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François-Xavier Devetter: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Emmanuelle Puissant: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]

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Abstract: The purpose of this article is to show how low wages in home care services, where jobs are considered "low skilled", are due to a set of mechanisms resulting from a socio-political and socio-economic construction. These mechanisms are due to both public and private strategies that we seek to clarify, on the basis of a synthesis of empirical work on the field of personal services. Three mechanisms for the non-recognition of these occupations have been identified, each of which is present both in national policy orientations and in employers' human resources strategies. It appears that the home help sector illustrates trends present in many other highly feminised service activities (such as cleaning, hotel and catering or retail).

Keywords: personal services; skill; home helpers; services; women; low wage; bas salaires; aide à domicile; femmes; services à la personne; qualification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Travail et Emploi, 2018, 155-156, pp.31-64. ⟨10.4000/travailemploi.8826⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/travailemploi.8826

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