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Despite some attention devoted to part-time employment withinsufficient or inadequate work hours, research is still too limitedon how the burden of underemployment is distributeddisproportionately on vulnerable workers and its implications forfinancial well-being and work-family balance....
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While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
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In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time...
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consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
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PTR across countries are significantly affected by policy and institutions. In particular policy measures geared toward … legal framework directly affecting part-time positions and the creation of financial incentives (subsidies and improvement … of social protection) to take up a part-time job. Moreover, other labour market institutions, including benefit systems …
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The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...
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Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
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