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Selected Works of Susan N. Houseman
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Working Time in Comparative Perspective: Volume II - Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work
(2001)
  • Susan Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute
  • Alice Nakamura, University of Alberta
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Abstract
The chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under two topics: 1) working time over the life cycle, and 2) nonstandard work arrangements (e.g., temporary work, job sharing and moonlighting).
Keywords
  • work hours,
  • working time,
  • lifecycle,
  • work and family,
  • workweek,
  • work arrangements,
  • nonstandard work,
  • contingent labor market,
  • contingent labour market,
  • flexible work,
  • temporary employment,
  • temporary work,
  • temporary jobs
Disciplines
Publication Date
January 1, 2001
Publisher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
ISBN
9780880992305 (cloth) ; 9780880992299 (pbk.)
Publisher Statement

Introduction and Overview/ Susan Houseman and Alice Nakamura

  1. The Life Cycle of Working Time in the United States and Canada / John D. Owen
  2. Perspectives on Working Time over the Life Cycle / Michael Wolfson and Geoff Rowe
  3. Adults Returning to School: Payoffs from Studying at a Community College / Duane E. Leigh and Andrew M. Gill
  4. Children's Effects on Women's Labor Market Attachment and Earnings / William E. Even and David A. Macpherson
  5. U.S. Health Policy and Mothers of Children with Disabilities / Janet Hunt-McCool
  6. Early Retirees of a Telecommunications Firm: Patterns of Employment and Working Time / Gangaram Singh and Anil Verma
  7. Working Time over the Life Cycle / Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin
  8. Self-Employment and Schedule Flexibility for Married Females / Theresa J. Devine
  9. Work Site and Work Hours / Linda N. Edwards and Elizabeth Field-Hendrey
  10. A Comparative Analysis of Moonlighting in Canada and the United States / Jean Kimmel and Lisa M. Powell
  11. Large Companies and the Changing Use of Temporary Workers / Shulamit Kahn, Fred Foulkes, and Jeffrey Heisler
Citation Information
Houseman, Susan, and Alice Nakamura, eds. 2001. Working Time in Comparative Perspective. Vol. 2, Life-Cycle Working Time and Nonstandard Work. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Related Files
sh01wticintrobg.pdf (94 KB) Introduction and Overviewsh01wticch10bg.pdf (165 KB) 10. A Comparative Analysis of Moonlighting in Canada and the United States