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What’s behind the increase in part-time work?

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  • Leila Bengali
  • Robert G. Valletta

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Part-time work spiked during the recent recession and has stayed stubbornly high, raising concerns that elevated part-time employment represents a ?new normal? in the labor market. However, recent movements and current levels of part-time work are largely within historical norms, despite increases for selected demographic groups, such as prime-age workers with a high-school degree or less. In that respect, the continued high incidence of part-time work likely reflects a slow labor market recovery and does not portend permanent changes in the proportion of part-time jobs.

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  • Leila Bengali & Robert G. Valletta, 2013. "What’s behind the increase in part-time work?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue aug26.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedfel:y:2013:i:aug26:n:2013-24
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