A Sociological Perspective on Part-Time Work

Abstract

Abstract Throughout Europe, and in most OECD countries, part-time work has been expanding, along with other types of non-standard employment. There are large differences between countries in national levels of part-time work at the start of the increase, and in the size and longevity of the increase. In Sweden and Denmark, where high female economic activity rates have reached saturation levels, there is little or no further growth in part-time work and even some switching back to full-time jobs instead. In Greece, Italy, and Spain, women’s employment remains at relatively low levels, irrespective of hours worked, as shown in Table 1.1. But in most countries the common experience is of growth in what has until recently been regarded as a somewhat uninteresting or irrelevant labour-market minority group.

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