Eurostat: How common - and how voluntary - is part-time employment?

43 million persons aged 15 to 64 in the European Union (EU) worked part-time in 2017. This represents one in five (19.4%) persons having a job in the EU. Part-time employment as a percentage of total employment has fluctuated between 15.6% and 19.6% over the last 15 years in the EU. According to Eurostat, in 2017, this proportion was still much higher for women (31.7%) than for men (8.8%). It was also slightly higher in the euro area (21.6%) than in ...

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