PRECARIOUSNESS AND ARTISTS: THE SPANISH CASE

Our research focuses on the labour conditions of the artistic sector, based on the surveys the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) publishes on a periodical basis, informing about socio-economic data regarding the type of contracts, economic activity and earned incomes in the general labour market. We analyse the distribution of salaries, the number of working hours and the kind of contracts for the sector of activity of the artists through a series of statistics and use of web microdata forms as defined by the 2014 Wage Structure Poll (EES-14) as a primary unit of analysis. We obtain empirical evidence of an actual precarious artistic life and demonstrate that the values characterising the right to lead a life with dignity are substantially lower in the so-called creative industries than the ones in other professional fields.