Quality of work and job satisfaction: comparing female part-time work in four European countries. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Quality of work and job satisfaction: comparing female part-time work in four European countries. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)
- Main Title:
- Quality of work and job satisfaction: comparing female part-time work in four European countries
- Authors:
- Gallie, Duncan
Gebel, Michael
Giesecke, Johannes
Halldén, Karin
Van der Meer, Peter
Wielers, Rudi - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Adding to the debate on the integrative or marginalizing nature of female part-time work, this article provides a comparative analysis of the implications of female part-time work for different intrinsic job quality dimensions and job satisfaction. Drawing on national micro-data from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, our multivariate analyses show cross-national similarities in terms of lower job learning opportunities for female part-timers. We found a significantly higher incidence of repetitiveness only among Swedish female part-timers and lower degrees of task discretion among British, Dutch, and Swedish women working part-time hours. Female part-timers were either equally satisfied with their work as female full-timers or even more satisfied. This held true also after accounting for the lower intrinsic job quality of part-time work. While women working part-time hours were as affected by their job quality characteristics as were full-timers, we conclude that the shorter hours of work per se provide an important additional source of job satisfaction.
- Is Part Of:
- International review of sociology. Volume 26:Issue 3(2016)
- Journal:
- International review of sociology
- Issue:
- Volume 26:Issue 3(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 26, Issue 3 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0026-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 457
- Page End:
- 481
- Publication Date:
- 2016-09-01
- Subjects:
- Part-time work -- job quality -- job satisfaction -- country comparisons -- Europe
Sociology -- Periodicals
301.05 - Journal URLs:
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http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/journal.asp?wasp=e14485f1e05c40ff8174d4bccfa787de&referrer=parent&backto=searchpublicationsresults, 1, 1;homemain, 1, 1; ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/03906701.2016.1181839 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0390-6701
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