JT CAN BE ARGUED that the fundamental scarce resource in the economy is the availability
of human time, and that the allocation of time to various activities will ultimately determine …

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Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two
opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The …

This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour
force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present …

This thesis presents the results of the research conducted over the past years and started at
the European Centre for Work and Society (ECWS) in Maastricht. At the ECWS (1984-1987) …

This study investigates the increase in the labour force participation rate of women. We
estimate a binary age–period–cohort model for a sample of Dutch women born between …

Since the mid-twentieth century, part-time work has increased more than full-time work in
most advanced capitalist countries. Part-time work is still mostly women's work, yet the level …

What is the nature of female part-time employment in the European Union? Using data from
the Second European Survey on Working Conditions, the author seeks to address this …

Work time regimes are constituted according to the degree of flexibility in work hours and
gender equity in work schedules and economic roles. The fifteen member states of the …

This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo‐Fordism as a
flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo‐Fordism relies on old …