How Bad is Involuntary Part-Time Work?

Abstract

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‘Going under-employed’: Industrial and regional effects, specialization and part-time work across recession-hit Southern European Union regions

“…An example is the Ionian Islands during 2009–2012 (see Figure 2). Metropolitan regions, which hold more than 50% of national part-time employment, also show expanding trends for part-time employment, a finding in line with other contributions (Borowczyk-Martins and Lalé, 2016; Green and Livanos, 2015; Veliziotis et al, 2015). Volume-wise, part-time work can also be found in some agricultural regions, such as Thessaly.…”

“…Here, involuntary part-time workers face a higher poverty risk (Horemans et al, 2016) and, since the ‘Great Recession’, full-time workers face equally high risks of working part-time along with the high probability of being unemployed. Also, variations in involuntary part-time work are highly dependent upon variations in full-time work (Borowczyk-Martins and Lalé, 2016).…”

Labour in changing urban landscapes

“…An example is the Ionian Islands during 2009-2012 (see Figure 3.2). Metropolitan regions, which hold more than 50% of national part-time employment, also show expanding trends for part-time employment, a finding in line with other contributions (Borowczyk-Martins and Lalé, 2016;Veliziotis et al, 2015). Volume-wise, part-time work can also be found in some agricultural regions, such as Thessaly.…”

“…Here, involuntary part-time workers face a higher poverty risk (Horemans et al, 2016) and, since the 'Great Recession', full-time workers face equally high risks of working parttime along with the high probability of being unemployed. Also, variations in involuntary part-time work are highly dependent upon variations in full-time work (Borowczyk-Martins and Lalé, 2016).…”

Under-employment

“…This group includes both involuntary part-time workers who work part-time because they could not find full-time employment, and those part-time workers who simply want to work additional hours. While working part-time may be better than being unemployed (Borowczyk-Martins, Lalé and Etienne, 2016 [3]), and can serve as a stepping stone to full-time work (Borowczyk-Martins and Lalé, 2018 [4]), an inability to obtain more hours of work can be a source of income instability and poverty for workers.…”