Moving down: women's part-time work and occupational change in Britain 1991-2001.

Autor/inn/en	Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Moving down: women's part-time work and occupational change in Britain 1991-2001. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Abstieg: Teilzeitarbeit von Frauen und Tätigkeitsstruktur in Großbritannien 1991-2001.
Quelle	Bonn (2007), 30 S., 226 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 3106
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Frau; Humankapital; Vollzeitarbeit; Beruflicher Abstieg; Erwerbstätiger; Qualifikationsanforderung; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Unterwertige Beschäftigung; Überqualifikation; Arbeitspapier; Teilzeitarbeitnehmer
Abstract	"The UK's Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the 'hidden brain drain' when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the nature of occupational change as women make the transition between full-time and part-time work. We construct an occupational classification which supports a ranking of occupations based on the average level of qualification of those employed there on a full-time basis. Using the NESPD and the BHPS for the period 1991-2001 we show that perhaps one-quarter of women moving from full- to part-time work move to an occupation at a lower level of qualification. Over 20 percent of professional women downgrade, half of them moving to low-skill jobs; two-thirds of nurses leaving nursing become care assistants; women from managerial positions are particularly badly affected. Women remaining with their current employer are much less vulnerable to downgrading, and the availability of part-time opportunities within the occupation is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a lower-level occupation. These findings indicate a loss of economic efficiency through the underutilisation of the skills of many of the women who work part-time." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1991 bis 2001. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2008/2