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RECENT TRENDS IN PART‐TIME EMPLOYMENT
Author(s) -
LEVENSON ALEC R.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.1996.tb00635.x
Subject(s) - economics , boom , labour economics , confusion , recession , great recession , part time employment , agency (philosophy) , demographic economics , macroeconomics , sociology , engineering , work (physics) , psychology , mechanical engineering , social science , environmental engineering , psychoanalysis
This study analyzes trends in part‐time employment in the United States for 1964–1993. The conventional wisdom holds that a permanent shift has occurred toward part‐time employment—particularly involuntary part‐time jobs—in recent years. The data show a cyclical increase during the latest recession, but no upward trend since 1984. A concurrent boom in temporary agency employment suggests a confusion between “part‐time” and “temporary” jobs.