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

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, t...

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Superior document:Research in comparative & global social policy
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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.
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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