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Modernisation, Culture and Part-Time Employment: The Example of Finland and West Germany

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  • Birgit Pfau-Effinger

    (Department of Sociology, Central Research Unit `Work and Region', at the University of Bremen, Germany)

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The paper discusses how differences between European countries in the rate of part-time employment among women can be explained. In contrast to the usual explanations, the paper emphasises the importance of cultural specificities in the respective countries with respect to the gender contract on the main family and integration model to which individuals as well as institutions refer in their orientations and behaviour. The differences are explained socio-historically by the specificities in the process of modernisation when transforming from an agrarian to an industrial society, showing why in each country a different family and integration model developed. Questions as to the form in which industrialisation occurred, which societal class dominated the transformation process culturally, and whether there was a cultural continuity or discontinuity, are important for cross-national differences in the family model and for the labour market behaviour of women today.

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  • Birgit Pfau-Effinger, 1993. "Modernisation, Culture and Part-Time Employment: The Example of Finland and West Germany," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 7(3), pages 383-410, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:7:y:1993:i:3:p:383-410
    DOI: 10.1177/095001709373003
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    1. Pfau-Effinger, Birgit & Geissler, Birgit, 1992. "Institutionelle und sozio-kulturelle Kontextbedingungen der Entscheidung verheirateter Frauen für Teilzeitarbeit : ein Beitrag zu einer Soziologie des Erwerbsverhaltens," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 25(3), pages 358-370.
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    1. MUEHLBERGER Ulrike, 2000. "Women's Labour Force Attachment in Europe: An Analytical Framework and Empirical Evidence for the Household," IRISS Working Paper Series 2000-07, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD.
    2. Nicole Bosch & Anja Deelen & Rob Euwals, 2010. "Is Part‐time Employment Here to Stay? Working Hours of Dutch Women over Successive Generations," LABOUR, CEIS, vol. 24(1), pages 35-54, March.
    3. Kea Tijdens, 2002. "Gender Roles and Labor Use Strategies: Women's Part-Time Work in the European Union," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 71-99.

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