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Title: Employment Adjustment and Part-time Work: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we develop a stock-flow framework to describe the dynamics of part-time employment. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes in transitions between full-time and part-time employment. Those transitions occur overwhelmingly at the same employer, entail sizable changes in individuals’ working hours and are associated with an increase in involuntary part-time work. Our findings provide a novel understanding of the cyclical dynamics of labor adjustment on the intensive margin.

Url: https://www.cirano.qc.ca/files/publications/2017s-27.pdf

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Authors: Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lale, Etienne

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Publication Number: 2017s-27

Institution: Cirano

Pages: 44

Publisher Location: Montreal, CA

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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