part-time employment

collocation in English

meanings of part-timeand employment

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part-time
adverb
adjective
uk /ˌpɑːtˈtaɪm/ us /ˌpɑːrtˈtaɪm/
If you work part-time or do part-time work, you work for only some of the day or ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk /ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/ us /ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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Examples of part-time employment

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Part-timeemployment, argues the author, is the most appropriate way to engineer, first, an extension to working lives and, secondly, a gradual retirement transition.
Fourteen patients were either in part-timeemployment (4) or were pursuing careers (10).
This reflects previous part-timeemployment which he was asked to leave because of his attitude, and no recent record of any employment.
The lower production loss for women reflects a higher part-timeemployment.
Especially needed are more studies of children as they make transitions into increasingly complex and differentiated settings, such secondary school or part-timeemployment.
This removes the need for re-location and also allows students in year 1 to maintain part-timeemployment.
Most had one or two children, were in full- or part-timeemployment, and had a partner who was employed.
This feature was particularly beneficial to women, enabling years of childrearing or part-timeemployment to be disregarded.
A higher proportion of those with caring responsibilities were in part-timeemployment (31 per cent as compared with the average of 24 per cent).
The authors add that it 'constitutes an important source of part-timeemployment for rural poor'.
The impact of part-timeemployment is interesting - its impact on women is 0.25 and statistically significant.
Rates of female part-timeemployment remain different, as we saw above, but are much less so today than in the 1980s.
For example, most people express a preference for full-time employment over part-timeemployment.
The models for women used three dichotomous variables : whether a person was in paid work, in full-time employment, or in part-timeemployment.
Another feature of their economies is the low rate of part-timeemployment.
The authors document a rise in part-timeemployment, a dramatic increase in employment in the service sector, and a rapid entry of women into the workforce.
New identities are being constructed by some young people around highly provisional, contingent and ephemeral mixes of studentship and part-timeemployment.
To eliminate effects of part-timeemployment, we scaled the last year of known salary history to its full-time equivalent so that all backcasted years were based on full-time work.
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