Half a job: bad and good part-time jobs in a changing labor market

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. Half a Job Is Not Enough 2. Why Has Part-Time Employment Continued to Grow? 3. Two Theoretical Frameworks 4. Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs 5. Implications of the Distinction Between Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs 6. How Businesses Set the Level of Part-Time Employment 7. Cycles and Trends 8. The Case for New Policies Appendix: A Formal Model of the Cyclical Adjustment of Part-Time Employment in Noncyclical Industries Notes References Index