Dualisation of part-time work : : the development of labour market insiders and outsiders / / Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne Kavli, and Ragnhild Steen Jensen.

• Superior document: Research in comparative & global social policy
• HerausgeberIn: Nicolaisen, Heidi,; Kavli, Hanne Cecilie,; Jensen, Ragnhild Steen, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Research in comparative & global social policy.; Policy Press scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 pages).
• Notes: Previously issued in print: 2019.

This volume brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up-to-date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels. The contributors critically examine part-time employment in different institutional settings across Europe, the USA, Australia and Korea. This analysis serves as a prism to investigate wider trends, particularly in female employment, including the continued increase in part-time work and processes that are increasingly creating dualisation and inequality between 'good' and 'bad' jobs.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series preface -- Introduction -- Styles and Methods of Policy Analysis in Brazil -- European Union regulations and -- governance of part-time work -- So close, so far? Part-time employment and its effects on gender equality in Italy and Spain1 -- Workplace responses to national regulations to reduce involuntary part-time work -- The quality of working conditions -- and part-time work -- Part-time working women's access to other types of flexible working-time arrangements across Europe -- Part-time work in Danish private services: a (mis)match 133 between wage flexibility and living hours -- Stepping in, stepping out or staying put? Part-time work and immigrant integration in Norway -- How good is half a job? Part-time employment and job quality in the US -- Dualisation or normalisation of part-time work in the Nordic countries: work insecurity and mobility over time -- Work-life balance, gender and part-time work -- The interplay of welfare state policies with supply- and demand-side factors in the production of marginalised part-time employment among women in Germany -- Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia -- Are female part-time workers dualised in South Korea? Institutional structures and employment conditions of South Korean female part-time jobs -- Conclusion and prospects -- Index