Project
Mobilizing unutilised labour reserves: the role of part-time work and extended employment interruptions
Norwegian women have a high employment level, but at the same time one of the highest part-time rates in Europe as well as in the Nordic countries, and part-time is common among women at all stages of the life cycle. At the same time a substantial proportion is absent from work due to childbirth and child-care. This project will explore the potential labour supply reserve among these groups, distinguishing barriers that may prevent and measures that may promote increased labour supply.
Project details
- Project manager
- Ragni Hege Kitterød
- Project term
- 01.01.2008 - 31.12.2011
- Project status
- Completed
- Research field
About the Project
The project has the following sub-goals: To identify circumstances that make women satisfied with full-time work, to explore to what extent women transfer from part-time to full-time work, to establish whether more market work for the woman presupposes less market work for her partner, and to investigate which factors promote and which factors prevent an increase in female labour supply more generally, and particularly among part timers and mothers who have extended employment interruptions.
Publications
- Hvorfor er mødre mer fornøyde med full jobb i Arbeidskraftundersøkelsen enn i andre undersøkelser?
- Authors
- Ragni Hege Kitterød
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Contact
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- ragni.hege.kitterod@ssb.no
- Phone
- 21094664
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- Randi.Kjeldstad@ssb.no
- Phone
- 21094503