[PEN-L:11703] Re: questions about part time jobs

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote:

>1. The Wall Street Journal says that part time jobs are not increasing?
>Any thoughts.

U.S. part-time employment (economic & noneconomic) as percent of total
employment:

1960  11.1%
1970  13.7%
1980  16.4%
1990  16.5%
1997  16.6%

Most other OECD countries show a rise from the early 1970s to 1995 - though
a pretty steady-looking one, not a recent explosion. I wonder how much of
this is the result of women's entry into paid work, since they're more
likely to work p-t.

>2. If a person has 2 part time jobs, does that count as a single part
>time worker or 2?

>From the boilerplate in Employment & Earnings: "Full-time workers are those
who usually worked 35 hours or more (at all jobs combined).... Part-time
workers are those who usually work less than 35 hours a week (at all
jobs)...." And "unpublished data are available for the hours worked in each
job and for usual hours." The monthly employment release
(http://stats.bls.gov:80/newsrels.htm) has data on multiple jobholding.
There are more multiple jobholders than officially unemployed.


Doug

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