Re: US average weekly hours worked (Why is America so violent)
On May 14, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
Does this correlate to an increase in the proportion of part-time
workers, eg. 30 hours or less, or is the widespread perception of a huge
increase in voluntary and involuntary part-time employment also wrong?
That perception is way at odds with the facts. The part-time share of
the U.S. workforce has been almost perfectly flat at 16-17% since
1970s. It was 14% in 1960. The share working part-time for economic
reasons (the newer name for involuntary) is very cyclical; it was
2.3% at the 2000 peak, and is now around 3%. But it was 4% in 1980.
The share working part time because they want to has been flat at
13-14% since 1970.
Doug