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Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim

Title
Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim / edited by Jacqueline OʼReilly and Colette Fagan.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • O'Reilly, Jacqueline, 1964-
  • Fagan, Colette.
Description
xviii, 286 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Conceptualising part-time work : the value of an integrated comparative perspective / Colette Fagan and Jacqueline O'Reilly -- Where and why is part-time work growing in Europe? / Mark Smith, Colette Fagan, and Jill Rubery -- When do men work part-time? / Lei Delsen -- Why don't minority ethnic women in Britain work part-time? / Angela Dale and Clare Holdsworth -- Are part-time jobs better than no jobs? / Ulrich Walwei -- Are benefits a disincentive to work part-time? / Marco Doudeijns -- Part-time work : a threat to labour standards? / Jill Rubery -- How does part-time work lead to low pension income? / Jay Ginn and Sara Arber -- Culture or structure as explanations for differences in part-time work in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands? / Birgit Pfau-Effinger -- Why is part-time work so low in Portugal and Spain? / Margarida Ruivo, Maria do Pilar González, and José M. Varejão -- How does the 'societal effect' shape the use of part-time work in France, the UK and Sweden? / Anne-Marie Daune-Richard -- What is the nature of part-time work in the United States and Japan? / Susan Houseman and Machiko Osawa -- Why is the part-time rate higher in Japan than in South Korea? / Akira Wakisaka and Haesun Bae -- Will the employment conditions of part-timers in Australia and New Zealand worsen? / Janeen Baxter.
Call Number
JBE 98-1390
ISBN
  • 0415156696
  • 041515670X (pbk.)
LCCN
98166828
OCLC
39174787
Title
Part-time prospects : an international comparison of part-time work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim / edited by Jacqueline OʼReilly and Colette Fagan.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
O'Reilly, Jacqueline, 1964-
Fagan, Colette.
Research Call Number
JBE 98-1390
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