Women's Part-Time Work: A Cross-National Comparison

Part-Time Work in the Nordic Region II

“…The fact that Norway continues to have high levels of female part-time employment in a Nordic perspective might be one explanation to why part-time employment is more debated and researched there than elsewhere in the Nordic region. Rosenfeld and Birkelund (1995) compare women's part-time work across countries. They use cross-national survey data collected in the 1980s from West Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Canada, USA, Australia and Japan.…”

“…Discipline is based on journal where author affiliation was not published. The list shows that the quantitative papers with cross-country comparative analyses are most cited in this field, as the articles by Rosenfeld and Birkelund (1995) and Gash (2008). Next, quantitative papers that investigate the prevalence of part-time employment in a single country, i.e.…”

The skills and autonomy of female part-time work in Britain and Sweden

“…It seems plausible that the extent of disadvantage will be affected by the institutional context of employment, for instance the coverage of collective bargaining, the nature of labour regulation, the structure of skill formation and the welfare system (Anxo et al, 2000;Bardasi & Gornick, 2008;Blossfeld & Hakim, 1997;Buddelmeyer et al, 2005b;Daune-Richard, 1998;Ellingsaeter, 1995;Fagan & Rubery, 1996;Fouarge & Muffels, 2009;Nätti, 1995;O'Reilly, 1994;Rosenfeld & Birkelund, 1995;Smith et al, 2000).…”

Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries

“…Higher female employment levels in the social democratic countries, compared to the other two regime types, are further attributed to an overall pattern of high levels of child care and/or parental leave (Gornick, Meyers, and Ross 1998;Rosenfeld and Birkelund 1995;Schmidt 1993), and to policies that encourage part-time and reduced-hour work (Gustafsson 1994). Moderately high levels in the liberal countries are further explained by tight links in these countries between employment status and a range of non-cash benefits (Gornick 1998), links that are often described as "workforcing".…”

“…Several studies have documented that rates of part-time work vary across countries --markedly 9 for women, modestly for men --and that part-time workers tend to hold different jobs and receive less cash compensation per hour than their full-time counterparts (Gornick and Jacobs 1996;Rosenfeld and Birkelund 1995). The cross-national pattern is complex; variation in part-time rates is extensive both across and within the three regime types (Gornick 1998).…”