Part-time work and productivity

The fourth section then turns to the topic of productivity, first, by looking at the implications of different types of part-time work for productivity at the firm or workplace level and second, by considering the likelihood of those working part-time being able to pursue productive lives. [...] In identifying the development of types of part-time work in the UK it is therefore helpful to draw on and combine knowledge of changing industrial structures, characteristics of the labour regulation system and its intertwined impact on the development of part-time work and of how women were integrated into the labour market in the post second world war period and beyond. [...] Exploring the diversity of part-time work as revealed by the 2022-23 Labour Force Survey The heterogeneity of part-time work that can be expected to have increased in the UK over time is in many respects obscured by the treatment of part-time work in labour market statistics as a unified category. [...] These differences relate to both the nature of the work and the working conditions and to the characteristics of the workers employed. [...] We focus first on identifying where part-time work is utilised at a significant level within the economy, second on differences in the revealed quality of part-time work according to broad occupational divisions; third on analysing both the incidence of part-time work and the revealed quality of part-time work by broad demographic characteristics of the part-time work force- by gender, age and edu.