Part-time work in Britain 1992-2006: from periphery to core?

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The work and labour market situation of female part-time workers have been a central focus of contrasting sociological interpretations of the labour market. These share in common a view that part-timers occupy jobs with lower levels of skill and lower pay than full-timers, but provide very different accounts of why this should be the case. However, the major perspectives adopt a relatively static view of the labour market, implicitly assuming that the relativities between full-timers and part...

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Authors: Gallie, D; Zhou, Y

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) Publisher's website
• Series: SKOPE Research Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• ISSN: 1466-1535
• Paper number: 83, May 2009
• Language: English
• Keywords: part-time work; polarisation; skills; pay
• Subjects: Education; Employment