Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192584 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 602
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
The article analyses part-time work, both so-called voluntary and involuntary, in a gender perspective and discusses under what conditions women and men work part-time. The discussion is based on logistic regression models, including human capital, life-course- and household characteristics and job characteristics as independent variables. We use Norwegian Labour Force Survey data. The analysis shows that part-time work is a strongly gendered phenomenon, not only because it occurs much more frequently among women than among men, but also because the causes of part-time differ between the sexes. We find, as expected, that involuntary part-time is mainly tied to job characteristics, whereas voluntary part time is equally predicted by worker characteristics and job characteristics. The effect of gender is strong and significant, however less significant when controlling for job characteristics than when controlling for worker characteristics.
Subjects: 
Voluntary part-time
involuntary part-time
gender
job- and labour-market approach
individual- and life-course approach
time bargaining
JEL: 
J22
J23
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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