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How, and to what extent, are patterns of part time working influenced by a country's welfare state system? Discuss with reference to at least two countries.
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How, and to what extent, are patterns of part time working influenced by a country's welfare state system? Discuss with reference to at least two countries. Introduction Since the 1970's, and particularly in the 1980's, there has been a rapid expansion of part time employment in all OECD countries. Universal trends in part time work can be seen across countries: it is often associated with marginal employment; its expansion has coincided with a period of industrial restructuring and a growing presence of women in the labour market. In 1994, women accounted for 70 per cent of part timers in twelve of the fifteen EU states. Therefore, the gender dimension is a key concept for understanding part time work (Smith, Fagan and Rubery, 1998). There are many areas of this phenomenon that can be researched, such as why is it so bound by gender, what different types of part timers there are...
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