Part-Time Work and Industry Growth

20 Pages Posted: 16 May 1998

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Bruce Fallick

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Date Written: 1998

Abstract

The impression that employment in the U.S. has become more part-time intensive may be driven by a tendency for faster-growing industries to use more part-time work. I document this association over 1983-1993, and demonstrate that it is robust to alternative measures. Similar relationships are discernible in several countries. However, the association does not emerge clearly in the U.S. until the 1980s. Moreover, both relative growth rates and relative part-time intensities of industries have changed markedly since 1940. Part-time work at fast-growing industries is not more likely to be involuntary, although this may be true for entering workers, nor is there a trend in that direction.

JEL Classification: J29

Suggested Citation

Fallick, Bruce, Part-Time Work and Industry Growth (1998). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=83677 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.83677

Bruce Fallick (Contact Author)

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland ( email )

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Cleveland, OH 44101-1387
United States

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