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Dualisation of Part-Time Work

The Development of Labour Market Insiders and Outsiders

Edited by Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne Cecilie Kavli and Ragnhild Steen Jensen

Published

Jun 26, 2019

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352 pages

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Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy

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978-1447348603

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234 x 156 mm

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Published

Jun 26, 2019

Page count

352 pages

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Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy

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978-1447348627

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352 pages

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352 pages

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Dualisation of Part-Time Work
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This book 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.

Heidi Nicolaisen is a Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Norway.

Hanne Kavli is Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Norway.

Ragnhild Steen Jensen is a Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research, Norway.

Part 1: Introduction;

Dualization of part-time work - the new normal? ~ Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne Kavli and Ragnhild Steen Jensen;

Part 2: Institutional and organizational regulations of part-time work;

Regulations and governance of part-time work at the European level ~ Sonia Bekker and Dalila Ghailani;

So far, so close? Employment de-standardisation trends in Italy and Spain and their effects in gender equality ~ Lara Maestripieri and Margarita León;

Dualist employer responses to national regulations – the case of the Norwegian health care industry ~ Hanne C. Kavli, Heidi Nicolaisen & Sissel Trygstad;

Part 3: Work-family reconciliation policies and part-time work;

Why do women work in ‘Minijobs’ in Germany? Explanation with supply and demand side factors ~ Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Thordis Reimer

Part-time work strategies of working parents in the Netherlands and Australia ~ Mara A. Yerkes and Belinda Hewitt;

How Does the South Korean Labor Market Marginalize Female Part-Time Workers? ~ Sophia Seung-yoon Lee and Min Young Song;

Part 4: Working conditions;

Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs in the United States ~ Kenneth Hudson and Arne L. Kalleberg;

Part-time work and wage levels in private services - does gender matter ~ Trine P. Larsen, Anna Ilsøe and Jonas Felbo-Kolding;

Part time working women’s access to other flexible work arrangements across Europe ~ Heejung Chung;

Part 5: Part-time work and labour market mobility;

Dualization or normalisation of part-time work in the Nordic countries: job quality and mobility over time ~ Kristine Nergaard and Juokko Nätti;

Immigrant women in part-time employment – stepping in or stepping out? ~ Hanne C. Kavli and Roy Nilsen;

Part 6: Conclusion;

Conclusion ~ Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne C. Kavli and Ragnhild Steen-Jensen.