Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192595 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 613
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This article analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and a half decade bring about changing underemployment levels of both women and men. The Norwegian labour market is strongly gender segregated and the processes and characteristics of underemployment differ between male and female dominated labour market sectors. The former sectors are generally more exposed or sensitive to economic fluctuations than the latter. It is indicated that underemployed men are predominantly temporarily expelled on part-time basis from their jobs, while women are to a larger extent permanently excluded from longer working-hour contracts in their jobs.
Subjects: 
Underemployment
gender
gender segregated labour market
economic cycles
JEL: 
J21
J22
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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