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Part-Time Work and the Legacy of Breadwinner Welfare States: A Panel Study of Women’s Employment Patterns in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, 1992–2002

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If there is one non-controversial stylized fact about the development of employment in the western world, it is the feminization of labor markets. On average, calculated across twenty OECD countries, the female employment rate rose from 49.2 to 59.0 percent between 1983 and 2003, whereas the male employment rate decreased from 77.7 to 73.6 percent. In these twenty years the male-female employment gap halved from 28.5 to 14.5 percent.

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  1. University of Arizona, USA

    Lane Kenworthy (Professor of Sociology and Political Science) (Professor of Sociology and Political Science)

  2. Emory University, USA

    Alexander Hicks (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

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Visser, J., Yerkes, M. (2008). Part-Time Work and the Legacy of Breadwinner Welfare States: A Panel Study of Women’s Employment Patterns in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, 1992–2002. In: Kenworthy, L., Hicks, A. (eds) Method and Substance in Macrocomparative Analysis. Research Methods Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594081_7

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