New “flexible” forms of work and individuals' job satisfaction
Part of : MIBES Transactions : international journal ; Vol.6, No.1, 2012, pages 100-112
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An important part of the empirical studies on job satisfaction examines what the impact of the structural changes in the labour market would be on individuals' job satisfaction. Following these market changes, there was an increasing focus of public policy on "flexible" labour-market practices such as part-time employment, overtime, contracts of temporary duration, etc. These flexible practices and especially the wide-spread introduction of part-time jobs raised concerns that the quality of part-time jobs may be inferior to that of full-time jobs with bad working conditions, precarious employment relationships, lower pay and limited career prospects. In this article, we study the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction more closely, making a distinction between voluntary and involuntary part-time work. The results from this study show that, all other things being equal, part-time jobs are segmented in Greece in the sense that involuntary part-time workers are less satisfied, and voluntary part-time workers are more satisfied. Furthermore, the majority of women turn to low-prestige part-time jobs, which reduces their job satisfaction significantly.
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overall job satisfaction, gender differences, part-time job
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