Part-timers: Living on Half-rations

Levitan, Sar A.; Conway, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1080/05775132.1988.11471247

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“…The responses, summarized in Table 1, are consistent with the substantial research showing that part-time workers disproportionately hold low skill, low wage jobs (Blank, 1990;Levitan and Conway, 1992;Tilly, 1992;Lettau, 1997). Within ® rms in the sample, 70% of part-time workers earn less than US $10 per hour, whereas only 36% of full-time workers do.…”

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Fringe benefits and the demand for part-time workers

Buchmueller¹

1999

Applied Economics

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In the US, tax code nondiscrimination rules and other institutional constraints require employers to offer the same fringe benefits to all full-time workers, but allow them to deny benefits to part-time workers. As a result, firms that offer generous fringe benefits to higher skill workers have an incentive to hire lower skill workers on a part-time or contingent basis. This paper uses cross-section establishment data to investigate the effect of employer-provided fringe benefits on the demand for part-time workers. The results indicate that firms that offer more generous fringe benefits make greater use of low wage part-time workers; there is no significant relationship between fringe benefits and the proportion of high wage workers employed part-time.

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Fringe benefits and the demand for part-time workers

Buchmueller¹

1999

Applied Economics

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“…Dualism in part-time employment does not necessarily contradict the critics of part-time work, such as Zalusky (1986) and Levitan and Conway (1988). The recent growth of part-time employment appears to mark an expansion of secondary, "bad" part-time jobs.…”

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Dualism in Part‐Time Employment

Tilly

1992

Industrial Relations

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“…Blank, 1990). Of the 5 million Americans paid at or below the minimum wage in 1987,44% were women working part-time (Levitan & Conway, 1992). Most part-time jobs continue to be low wage and low skill positions (Tilly, 1992).…”

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Contingent work: Research issues and the lens of moral exclusion.

Barker¹

1995

Changing Employment Relations: Behavioral and Social Perspectives.

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hat was once thought to be a minor leak from the pool of full-time and full-year jobs has become, if not a flood, at least a steady stream. That steady stream is currently termed contingent employment. Contingent workers-independent contractors and some part-time workers; migrant, seasonal, leased, and temporary workers; and certain homeworkers-have long been a fixture of the workplace (Morse, 1969). What is noteworthy is that short-term and tenuous arrangements between the employer and the worker have recently spread throughout North America as well as European countries with advanced industrial economies (Gustavsen, 1986;Prieto & Martin, 1990).The purpose of this chapter is to review the key research developments and critical issues in the study of contingent work, with special attention to the contingent workers of higher education. I also briefly address the metatheoretical construct of moral exclusion (Opotow, 1990). The lens of moral exclusion permits the viewer to focus on individuals and groups who are socially constructed as invisible, for example, the "invisible faculty" of higher education (Gappa & Leslie, 1993). A brief presentation of research on the contingent workers of the academy is provided along with goals for future research.

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Part-timers: Living on Half-rations

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Fringe benefits and the demand for part-time workers

Fringe benefits and the demand for part-time workers

Dualism in Part‐Time Employment

Contingent work: Research issues and the lens of moral exclusion.

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