Removing barriers to part-time employment: an aid to reducing welfare caseloads?
Part of a special section on welfare to work. The writer explores, from the perspectives of both the employer and the employee, the obstacles to part-time employment, both regulatory and resulting from natural market conditions. From the perspective of labor demand, employers face a number of fixe...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 229 - 244 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Spring 1998
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