THESIS PRESENTATION: Claudia Andrea Baeza Cabello
Trajectories of autonomous work. Biographical itineraries. Comparative analysis of the labour market in Chile and Spain 2019 to 2022
The research dealt with a comparative typological analysis of self-employed workers in Chile and Spain, with the aim of establishing similarities and differences in the configuration patterns of the various profiles of self-employed workers.
It sought conceptually, theoretically and methodologically to delimit self-employment in its various forms through the analysis of data from the active population survey of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Therefore, it is intended to provide elements of analysis based on the construction of the typology of these workers for the understanding of this phenomenon. In short, to provide theoretical and empirical elements for a sociological analysis that illuminates the social reality of the group studied.
The study design was sequential, composed of a factor analysis of multiple correspondences together with a cluster analysis with the factors obtained. In both countries, as a result of this first stage, we found three strata: high, medium and low. Subsequently, the sequential design included a second qualitative phase. To obtain the sample for this phase, we applied a typological comparison based on the average profiles of those obtained in the quantitative phase. Based on these profiles, we applied biographical interviews and constructed a typology of work trajectories. Finally, we report on a typology of work trajectories in both countries composed of four types: linear, multi-occupation, discontinuous and informal. The latter sector is more evident in Chile with a very high rate of 70% within the group, but is also present in Spain with a much lower incidence. Finally, it is observed that the phenomenon of self-employment responds to a clearly detected social structure of employment between high-quality independent occupations and professionalization, passing through medium-sized sectors mainly dedicated to commerce and services, reaching a low-skilled sector of the primary sector.
- Date: March 27, 2026
- Time: 11:00h
- Location: B1/021 Hall of Degrees Faculty of Political Science and Sociology