Part-time Employment: A Bridge Or a Trap?This text looks at the issues surrounding part-time work. Using Britain as a case, both the supply side and the demand side of part-time employment are examined. The main issues addressed are: the determinant of employers' demand for part-time workers; the extent to which part-time workers differ from full-time workers in terms of their respective employment conditions; the long term effect of part-time work experience on the labour market fortunes of women; and the different explanations for participation in part-time work. By analyzing these four aspects, this study seeks to examine the ways in which two labour market theories (that which calls for a deregulated labour market and that which demands greater protection for part-time employees) help us understand part-time work and the labour market. It also attempts to draw out some of the policy implications of the findings. |
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analysis associated attitudes Britain changes Chapter childcare class position committed to employment compared to full-timers demand for part-timers dependent variable destination class division of labour effect of part-time employers employment commitment employment status entry class examined extent factors female full-timers flexible firm thesis formal qualification full-time and part-time full-time jobs gender role Goldthorpe household housework human capital theory husbands industries job rewards Kirkcaldy labour market participation labour market segmentation labour market theory less level of formal level of part-time logistic regression long-hour part-timers lower male full-timers married women O-level occupational mobility part-time employment part-time jobs part-time work experience part-time work participation part-time workers part-time workforce product market promotion prospects public sector recruitment routine non-manual Rubery sample secondary labour market segmentation theory semi-/unskilled manual service class shift-work short-hour part-timers skill levels studies Swindon Tobit modelling types unemployed union wage rate working-hour status worklife workplace