The 236, 000 net new jobs added to the economy in February is misleading the gross number of new jobs included 340, 000 in the part-time, low wage category.
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Similarly, it seems that women are more likely to work part-time in countries that protect that desire, as the gap between the women working part-time in the other countries and women doing the same here at home grew by two percentage points between 1990 and 2010.
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In response to the dramatic downturn in part-time students nationwide, unprecedented support is needed now to ensure part-time study thrives in future.
There has been a 62, 000 fall in the number of people in part-time jobs, to just over eight million, with a 60, 000 increase in full-time employment, to 21.6 million.
The retail sector lost 28, 100 jobs in November, those added to handle the increase in traffic during the holidays being mainly part-time.
Wales saw the biggest fall in part-time students from the UK (down 9%).
The proportion in full- or part-time education in Britain fell from 18% to 17% over the time, whereas the OECD average rose from 18% to 25%.
When the Tories say that a higher proportion of the working-age population is now employed in Britain than in any other big European country, Labour dismisses the claim this is true only because of an increase in the number of part-time workers, it says.
Here in the U.S., he landed a part-time job in the stockroom of a Barnes and Noble, but lost it because the government was slow with his paperwork.
He then insisted I leave my new health care administration job in the city, so I found part-time work closer to our home in the suburbs.
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The big increase in part-time employment came not in the Reaganite 1980s but in the decade from 1964 to 1974.
The proportion of women in part-time employment has actually been falling, albeit gradually, since the mid-1970s.
Overlaid on this is the long-term increase in the importance of service and part-time jobs.
For example, if there are two well qualified candidates for a job who each have disabilities and can only work part time and a manager has only one full-time opening, does that manager have the authority to make a decision to create two part-time positions in lieu of the one full-time position so that the two people with the disabilities can share the job?
We had 33:1 in the upper grades and 28:1 in the lower grades, a part-time librarian, a part-time P.
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Since winning promotion from the Ryman League in 2004, Canvey have consolidated their position in the Conference, despite their part-time status.
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This caused a noticeable (and duly noticed) one-off jump in the fraction of jobs defined as part-time (see chart).
He added that the fall in part-time study and in mature students taking degrees was of "real concern for individuals, organisations and our society and economy".
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Worse, the incentives created by the employer mandate will accelerate the disturbing trend of the past 5 years that has moved us in the direction of a part-time, low-wage workforce.
Williams was playing non-league football at Hednesford six years ago, having been rejected by West Brom at 16, and he worked as a waiter and at Drayton Manor theme park in the Midlands while playing part-time football.
Local reports said the sign was posted by a student working part-time in the library.
Retirees who take part in the service might be expected to volunteer, or work part-time in so-called social enterprises.
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It is true that about a quarter of the rise in private sector employment in the past two years has been part-time work.
The number of British part-time students in the UK fell 3% between 2007 and 2008, to 762, 340.
The penalties associated with part-time work in the U.S. are actually seven times higher as they are in Sweden and the UK, and this affects workers across the economic spectrum, but we see low-wage workers especially hard hit with little if no benefits and with pretty much no with documented wage penalties.
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Yet Gilles Saint-Paul, an economist at the University of Toulouse, adds that some of the increase in women's part-time work might be because their husbands' wages are frozen thanks to the 35-hour law.
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