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Involuntary Full- and Part-Time Work: Employees’ Mental Health and the Role of Family- and Work-Related Resources [PDF]
Societies, 2020 Resources related to a good work-life balance may play an important role for the mental health of workers with involuntary working hours. This study investigates whether involuntary part-time (i.e., working part-time, but preferring full-time work) and ...
Deborah De Moortel +2 more
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Involuntary Temporary and Part-Time Work, Job Quality and Well-Being at Work [PDF]
Social Indicators Research, 2014 This paper studies the impact of job contract types on perceived job quality, using the Finnish 2008 Quality of Work Life Surveys (QWLS) from the years 1997, 2003 and 2008. In the analysis, job contract types are adjusted to take into account the motive for doing temporary and part-time work. Our results from the Finnish QWLS imply that there are clear
Merja Kauhanen, Jouko Nätti
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Labor market regulation and the cyclicality of involuntary part-time work
Journal for Labour Market ResearchIn times of economic crisis, many employers in liberal labor markets reduce their employees’ working hours, which leads to an increase in the incidence of involuntary part-time work.
Theresa Markefke, Rebekka Müller-Rehm
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Workplace responses to national regulations to reduce involuntary part-time work
, 2019 The growth in marginalized part-time work is a phenomenon often seen as part of an ongoing dualisation process in the labour market. Involuntary part-time is closely associated with marginalization. In Norway, the policy makers have tried to combat involuntary part-time work by introducing changes in the Working Environment Act (WEA). The intention was
Hanne Cecilie Kavli +2 more
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Working time flexibility in the EU countries [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2021 The study aims to identify the EU’s trends in the use of flexible forms of working time and to determine the specifics of individual EU countries. The study monitors the flexibility of working time based on the following indicators: persons employed part-
Eva Grmanová, Eva Ivanová
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Part-time work and health in the United States: The role of state policies
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Part-time work is a common work arrangement in the United States that can be precarious, insecure, and lacking opportunities for advancement. In turn, part-time work, especially involuntary part-time work, tends to be associated with worse health ...
Rachel Donnelly, Adam Schoenbachler
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The welfare effects of involuntary part-time work [PDF]
Oxford Economic Papers, 2017 Employed individuals in the USA are increasingly more likely to move to involuntarily part-time work than to unemployment. Spells of involuntary part-time work are different from unemployment spells: a full-time worker who takes on a part-time job suffers an earnings loss while remaining employed, and is unlikely to receive income compensation from ...
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel +1 more
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How Bad is Involuntary Part-Time Work? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 We use a set of empirical and analytical tools to conduct parallel analyses of involuntary part-time work and unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the similar cyclical behavior of involuntary part-time work and unemployment masks major differences in the underlying dynamics.
Daniel Borowczyk-Martins, Etienne Lalé
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SAGE Open, 2023 Using the Finnish Labour Force Surveys merged with register-based follow-up data, we analyzed how different characteristics of part-time work predict employees’ and entrepreneurs’ employment trajectories in an 8-year follow-up. We analyzed careers by the
Niklas Mäkinen +3 more
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Women and Pensions in Italy: Gender Imbalances and the Equalization of Retirement Age
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 This paper examines the age at retirement for men and women in Italy. Despite the expansion of women’s educational attainments, they still display lower employment rates, are frequently engaged in involuntary part-time jobs and have more fragmented ...
Nicola De Luigi +2 more
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