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Some Part-time Workers Content With Fewer Hours
By EmploymentCrossing | Dated: 08-31-2011
Unemployment remains a huge concern, but the underemployment problem isn’t as bad as it used to be. The vast majority of part-timers, defined as those who work less than 35 hours a week, are happy with their status. But economists don’t have a definitive answer for why more part-timers are content to work fewer hours. Part of it could be that workers who had been looking for full-time work have now decided they prefer the flexibility of a part-time schedule.
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Part-time workers: More fine with no full-time job
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