Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Reilly, Jacqueline, 1964-, Fagan, Colette
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.