Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part-Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim

By Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt, J. O’Reilly, Colette Fagan. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Preference or constraint? Part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom (2008, neutral): “Nonetheless, not all countries provide poor quality part-time work (O’Connell and Gash 2003; O’Reilly and Fagan 1998) and while”
Working time flexibility components and working time regimes in Europe: using company-level data across 21 countries (2013, background): “Most studies have been restricted to the examination of one arrangement, usually the use of part-time work (O’Reilly and Fagan 1998; Branine 1999; Anxo, Fagan, Cebrian and Moreno 2007; Tomlinson 2007) or shift work (Shen and Dicker 2008), the actual hours worked (e.g. O’Reilly, Cebrián and…”
High-skilled outsiders? Labor market vulnerability, education and welfare state preferences (2015, background): “Most scholars explain this with the need to reconcile family and work in the absence of affordable childcare facilities (O'Reilly and Fagan, 1998; Esping-Andersen, 1999, 2009).”
Flexible Working and the Gender Pay Gap in the Accountancy Profession (2004, background): “Such approaches advocate an increase in flexible and parttime working for men as well as women, together with a corresponding increase in men’s contribution to domestic work (Duncan, 1996; O’Reilly and Fagan, 1998).”
Converging or diverging? A comparative analysis of trends in contingent employment practice in Europe over a decade (2006, background): “…in part-time employment in the UK is indicative of the diversity of the labour market, where employees are actively seeking employment opportunities that enable them to accommodate non-work commitments such as carer or parenting responsibilities (O'Reilly and Fagan, 1998; Brewster et al., 1997).”
Bad Jobs in Britain (2004, methodology): “…the overwhelmingly female nature of the part-time workforce means that the effects of gender and contractual status either cannot be disentangled (Rubery, 1998) or else part-time work has poorer conditions because employers are able to exploit patriarchal attitudes toward women (Beechey &…”