Teilzeitväter? Deutschland, Schweden, Irland und die Niederlande im Vergleich: Working part-time? A comparison of part-time employment among fathers in Germany, Sweden, Ireland and the Netherlands

In the current discussions on combining work and family life, the idea of shorter working hours for fathers is becoming ever more popular. Although the proportion of part-time working men has somewhat increased in the last few years, parttime employment has been largely studied for women and mothers. Much less is known about men’s, and particularly fathers’, part-time employment. This study seeks to fill this gap by analysing part-time work among fathers in Germany, Sweden, Ireland, and the Netherlands using data from the European Labour Force Survey (LFS) from the year 2014. We show that fath... Mehr ...