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Women and part‐time work in Europe
Author(s) -
SALLADARRÉ Frédéric,
HLAIMI Stéphane
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2014.00205.x
Subject(s) - part time employment , matching (statistics) , demographic economics , incidence (geometry) , work (physics) , working time , labour economics , work time , economics , medicine , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , pathology , engineering
This article examines female part‐time employment in 23 European countries, distinguishing between “short” and “long” part‐time employment. The short form, defined as less than 20 hours per week, is associated with the youngest and oldest age groups, slight disability, a higher number of children, lower skill levels, and employment in community, social and personal services. Although the incidence of part‐time employment varies considerably across countries, long part‐time employment is generally more widespread than short part‐time employment, albeit with matching cross‐country variations in the incidence of the two types. This suggests that they are complementary, rather than substitutes for one another.