Fostering part-time employment

Edwin Whiting
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Edwin Whiting: Manchester Business School

Chapter 14 in A Guide to Unemployment Reduction Measures, 1987, pp 147-158 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There is a fairly widespread view that part-time employment is not a good thing because it prevents ‘real’ full-time employment. This view arises probably from the rapid increase in the number of new part-time employees who were not previously on the Unemployment Register.

Keywords: Married Woman; Unemployment Benefit; Labour Force Survey; Unemployment Register; Employment Cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08621-4_14

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