Publication year: 2011
Source: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 23 July 2011
Karin, Halldén , Duncan, Gallie , Ying, Zhou
Most OECD countries have experienced an increase of female part-time employment in the last decades. It has been argued that part-time work may give greater employment flexibility, enabling mothers to reconcile conflicting demands of family and work and thereby facilitating their integration into the wage economy. At the same time, it has been suggested that female part-time work implies segmentation of the labour force into a core and a periphery, with marginalized, low qualified jobs for part-time employees. However, little attention has been given the possible mediating effect of the institutional context on potential job quality disadvantages of part-timers. We…