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Student part‐time employment

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2009
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the pattern of part‐time working amongst a cohort of full time hospitality and tourism students studying at a university in Scotland.Design/methodology/approach – Students studying hospitality and tourism management were chosen due to the vocational nature of their program and the part‐time ...
Paul Barron, Constantia Anastasiadou
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Dualism in Part‐Time Employment

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 1992
This paper draws on open‐ended interviews of managers to characterize two distinct types of part‐time employment in service industries. “Secondary” part‐time employment displays the typical characteristics of a secondary labor market; “retention” part‐time jobs are primary labor market jobs.
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Involuntary part-time employment

Economics Letters, 1991
Abstract The involuntary part-time employment of those whose usual status is part-time (full-time) has risen by 5.0% (no change) per year relative to population and is found to rise by 15.3% (17.9%) for each percentage point rise in the rate of long-term (short-term) unemployment.
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Women and part-time employment

Journal of Sociology, 2011
This article investigates satisfaction with time pressure for men and women with different hours of paid employment using data from the 2006 ‘Negotiating the Life Course’ project. In Australia, part-time employment is a common strategy adopted by women with dependent children to reconcile paid work and family responsibilities.
Rose, Judy, Hewitt, Belinda, Baxter, Janeen   +2 more
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Paradoxical Patterns of Part-Time Employment in Denmark?

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2008
Part-time employment in Denmark has undergone some interesting longitudinal changes, which differ considerably from the experiences of other countries. As such, an analysis of part-time employment in Denmark may cast new light on the usual explanations of part-time employment and their underlying premises.
Lind, Jens, Rasmussen, Erling
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The reluctant workforce: undergraduates’ part‐time employment

Education + Training, 2002
Increasing numbers of full‐time undergraduates are supplementing their income by seeking paid employment during term‐time. This article details the results of a survey of 368 students at Crewe + Alsager Faculty of Manchester Metropolitan University carried out in March 2000.
Curtis, Susan, Williams, John
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Reconceptualizing Part-Time Employment

Work, Employment and Society, 1998
Part-time employment has expanded rapidly among women in many industrialised countries, particularly since the 1960s. The cause of this dramatic increase is often discussed in terms of demand and supply, or pull and push factors. The increasing demand for women workers and their wish for more flexible work arrangements, together with the growth of ...
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Fostering part-time employment

1987
There is a fairly widespread view that part-time employment is not a good thing because it prevents ‘real’ full-time employment. This view arises probably from the rapid increase in the number of new part-time employees who were not previously on the Unemployment Register.
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Part-time and Fixed-term Employment in the Netherlands

1994
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Huijgen, F., Delsen, L.W.M.
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Importance of Part‐Time Employment

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1950
IN THE BROAD SENSE part-time employment includes all paid work performed in addition to a full-time job or occupation. It generally excludes seasonal employment or employment which recurs at certain times of the year, such as summer or Christmas holiday work by students or teachers. Part-time workers perform their duties under various arrangements.
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