Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim /
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Conceptualising part-time work : the value of an integrated comparative perspective / Colette Fagan and Jacqueline O'Reilly
- Where and why is part-time work growing in Europe? / Mark Smith, Colette Fagan, and Jill Rubery
- When do men work part-time? / Lei Delsen
- Why don't minority ethnic women in Britain work part-time? / Angela Dale and Clare Holdsworth
- Are part-time jobs better than no jobs? / Ulrich Walwei
- Are benefits a disincentive to work part-time? / Marco Doudeijns
- Part-time work : a threat to labour standards? / Jill Rubery
- How does part-time work lead to low pension income? / Jay Ginn and Sara Arber
- Culture or structure as explanations for differences in part-time work in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands? / Birgit Pfau-Effinger
- Why is part-time work so low in Portugal and Spain? / Margarida Ruivo, Maria do Pilar González, and José M. Varejão
- How does the 'societal effect' shape the use of part-time work in France, the UK and Sweden? / Anne-Marie Daune-Richard
- What is the nature of part-time work in the United States and Japan? / Susan Houseman and Machiko Osawa
- Why is the part-time rate higher in Japan than in South Korea? / Akira Wakisaka and Haesun Bae
- Will the employment conditions of part-timers in Australia and New Zealand worsen? / Janeen Baxter.