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Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim
Title
Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim / edited by Jacqueline OʾReilly and Colette Fagan.
ISBN
0415156696
041515670X (pbk.)
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Physical Description
xviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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