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March 1999

Part-time work and industry growth

Bruce C. Fallick

From 1983 to 1993, faster growing U.S. industries tended to to be those that employed more part-time workers; because no such relationship was evident before 1980, it is doubtful that industry growth and part-time work are intrinsically related

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