As with many other OECD economies, a growing part‐time employment share has been a characteristic of the Australian workforce experience over the past three decades. Examines several distinctive features of Australian part‐time employment, namely: the high proportion of part‐time employees...

This paper examines the nature and level of flexible employment in the National Health Service (NHS) by investigating the extent to which part‐time work and job sharing arrangements are used in the provision and delivery of health care. It attempts to analyse the reasons for an increasing...

Uses evidence from both quantitative and qualitative research carried out across Europe to show that, while the profile of high and low users of part‐time and short‐term employment is country specific, is concentrated in the service and public sectors and is correlated with growth and...

Part‐time work has been the major area of employment growth during the last decade and now forms almost one‐quarter of total employment in the UK. Within the literature it is argued that a key aspect of the growth of part‐time work is its role in enabling an organisation to meet the...