Moving Down: Women's Part‐Time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991–2001
定量分析英国女性从全职转为兼职时的职业变化，发现四分之一女性经历职业降级，留在原雇主者风险较低，兼职机会比学龄前儿童更影响降级，表明技能未充分利用导致效率损失。
We give a quantitative analysis of the nature of occupational change - based on the utilisation of skills - as women make the transition between full-time and part-time work. We show that one-quarter of women moving from full- to part-time work experience downgrading. Women remaining with their current employer are less vulnerable and the availability of part-time opportunities is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a lower-skilled occupation. These findings indicate a loss of economic efficiency through the underutilisation of the skills of many of the women who work part-time. Copyright 2008 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2008.