Part-Week Work and Women's Unemployment
探讨了女性劳动力参与率上升的同时,部分周工作(非全职工作)增长的现象,并分析其与美国失业率上升及性别失业差异的关联。
THE large increase in the labor force participation of women during recent times has been accompanied by a less-noted but also important change in their employment picture-the growth of part-week work.' While the participation rate of women was increasing from 37% in 1957 to 49% in 1977, the percentage of female employment in part-week jobs was rising from 20% to 27% (U.S. Office of the President, 1970, 1978).2 Economists have linked these changes to both the secular rise of the unemployment rate in the United States and the differential between female and male unemployment (Friedman, 1977; Niemi, 1974; Perry, 1970). For example, Friedman states