Correcting Part-Time Misconceptions. Policy Watch.

Institution	Employment Policies Inst., Washington, DC.
Titel	Correcting Part-Time Misconceptions. Policy Watch.
Quelle	(2000), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Comparative Analysis; Definitions; Demography; Educational Attainment; Employed Women; Employee Attitudes; Employees; Employer Attitudes; Employment Level; Employment Patterns; Employment Problems; Employment Qualifications; Ethnic Groups; Family Characteristics; Fringe Benefits; Health Insurance; Individual Characteristics; Job Skills; Labor Force; Minority Groups; Part Time Employment; Salary Wage Differentials; Trend Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Begriffsbestimmung; Demografie; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Beschäftigungsgrad; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Beschäftigungssituation; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Ethnie; Sozialabgaben; Krankenversicherung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Produktive Fertigkeit; Labour force; Arbeitskraft; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Ethnische Minderheit; Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Trendanalyse
Abstract	In the past few years, union activists and some policymakers have increasingly portrayed part-time work as problematic for a worker. According to statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the part-time "problem" is more rhetoric than reality. Only 17% of U.S. workers are classified as part-time. Of those 17%, 15% are voluntary part-time workers and only 1.8% (2.1 million workers) are involuntary part-time workers. Part-time employment has not increased significantly in the past 25 years. Most part-time workers are not responsible for supporting a family because they are members of families with two or more workers. The median annual family income of part-time workers is $44,506. The racial and ethnic breakdown of the part-time work force closely resembles that of the full-time labor force. Part-time jobs are held mostly by teenagers and females. According to new research, the skills required to perform the duties of part-time jobs are often lower than those required for full-time jobs. After skills differences and other personal differences are accounted for, the wage gap between part-time and full-time workers is nearly nonexistent. Recent Census Bureau data show that 70.5% of part-time workers are covered by health insurance, either through work or through coverage provided by other earners of the household. (MN)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.epionline.org/study_epi_part-time_07-2000.html or http://www.epionline.org/study_epi_part-time_07-2000.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC