Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part-Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim

Why Do Europeans Work Part-Time? A Cross-Country Panel Analysis

“…This implies that the rate of part-time work may respond differently to business cycle effects relative to full-time employment. The literature has identified a number of ways in which the business cycle affects the share of part-time employment (see OECD, 1995, Delsen, 1998.…”

“…The purpose of this work is to identify the microeconomic and individual determinants of part-time work (Haskel 1997;Houseman 2001), to illustrate the role of part-time work as a flexible work arrangement (Haskel 1997, Farber 1999, Barrett and Doiron 2001, or to explain the transition between part-time jobs and other labour market states (Blank 1994, O'Reilly andBothfeld 2002;Buddelmeyer, Mourre and Ward 2005a). The second vintage deals with the comprehensive description of part-time employment developments based on macro-data and includes sociological and institutional qualitative evidence (Smith et al1998;Delsen 1998;OECD 1999, Walwei 1998. In this vein, some papers focus on international comparison (Lemaitre et al 1997;Buddelmeyer, Mourre and Ward 2005b) and attempt to understand the reason why part-time 1 i.e.…”

“…This paper also considers the effect of the business cycle on part-time employment. Although the counter-cyclicality of the relative growth of part-time employment compared to full-time employment has often been mentioned in the literature (Delsen 1998, Lester 1999) and tackled indirectly through the cyclicality of hours worked (Millard 1999), no systematic econometric investigation has been carried out using macroeconomic data.…”

Work from Home and Time Allocation*

“…Despite a reduction in total working hours in Japan in recent decades, working hours for regular male employees have increased steadily in the 2000s because of a shortage of workers associated with the aging population (Genda et al, 2015;Takami, 2019). The distribution of the female employment rate by age has long been M-shaped (Houseman and Osawa, 1998). For many women, after they get married and become pregnant, they leave their job to spend time on childcare.…”

Part-time work and retirement in Spain, towards a system without gender discrimination

“…They also consider that their chances of accessing labour benefits, such as pensions, health insurance, and unemployment benefits are reduced (Gallie et al, 1998;García-Perrote, 2000;Ginn and Arber, 1998;Kalleberg et al, 2000;Valdés, 2002) and fewer opportunities for career promotion are provided (Gallie et al, 1998;Russo and Hassink, 2008). Baker (1998) analyses the sex discrimination against part-time workers from a legal point of view.…”