Everywhere, this constrains women's job choices.Women are more likely than men to take part-time or informal work.
LOS ANGELES — Full-time moms are being forced to take part-time jobs, and corporate executives treat themselves to expensive wine after asking for a government bailout.
Ending the benefits could encourage some workers to take part-time work or lower-paying jobs than they would have otherwise, economists say.
Home Depot is known for hiring thousands of older workers; many retired plumbers and construction workers are eager to take part-time jobs there.
Professors Blau and Kahn also noted, however, that these policies could backfire, encouraging "women who would have otherwise had a stronger labor force commitment to take part-time jobs or lower-level positions".
Both groups will now face tougher rules obliging them to take part-time work, pushing an estimated 190,000 of them off welfare into jobs.The budget's popularity was not universal.
Her mother encouraged all three of the children to take part-time jobs to pay for their extras, and one of her jobs was in the local fish and chip shop - a fact the tabloids will never let her forget.
Another questioner asked whether he was seriously suggesting that high-school students, mainly blacks and Latinos, who were already behind on their studies and in danger of dropping out, should be encouraged to take part-time jobs.
The analysis, carried out jointly by researchers by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the University of Surrey and the University of Essex, argued that the biggest benefit from the programme was cutting the cost of childcare and making it easier for mothers in particular to take part-time employment.
Factoring in people seeking work, as well as those who want jobs but have stopped looking and those forced to take part-time jobs because full-time employment was not available, the broad unemployment gauge dipped to 14.4 percent in November from 14.6 percent in October.
