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The hospitality sector has been hit hardest by Covid-19 in Australia. Sally Wright and Chris Warhurst of IER will be working with of Sydney University to develop a new measure of the impact of Covid-19 on job quality in the Australian hospitality industry. The aim is to help government develop policies to ensure a sustainable recovery for the sector.

The gender pay gap is well researched. This new paper by IER鈥檚 Honorary Professor Rafael Mu帽oz de Bustillo Llorente and his Spanish team adds to that body of research by examining the non-monetary gap in working conditions by gender. Using the European Working Conditions Survey, it explores gender differences in working conditions by different dimensions of job quality and across countries.

Not even out of the health crisis, the UK is entering a jobs crisis. New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows a mixed picture of employment but with strong indications that employment is set to fall. The UK Government has done well to maintain employment levels to date but needs to be equally brave going forward and stick to its plan to create more good jobs in the UK.

The new article written by Professors and IER鈥檚 Clare Lyonette addresses two sizable gaps in knowledge concerning male part鈥恡imers. Are men's part鈥恡ime jobs of lower quality than men's full鈥恡ime jobs? Are male part鈥恡imers more or less satisfied with their jobs compared to their full鈥恡ime peers? For both questions, the article examines whether men's part鈥恡ime employment varies by occupational class.

The article is motivated by the large body of work on female part鈥恡imers, even though male part-time work has been increasing in recent years. Its theoretical framework is rooted in one of the most controversial discussions in the sociology of women workers: the 鈥済rateful slave鈥� debate that emerged in the 1990s when researchers sought to explain why so many women expressed job satisfaction with low鈥恞uality part鈥恡ime jobs. Innovatively, this article draws upon and challenges those contentious ideas to provide new insights into male, rather than female, part鈥恡ime employment.

The results provide clear evidence of low鈥恞uality male part鈥恡ime employment in the UK, when compared with men's full鈥恡ime jobs. Men working part鈥恡ime also express deteriorating satisfaction with jobs overall and in several specific dimensions of their jobs. Male part鈥恡imers in lower occupational class positions retain a clear 鈥渓ead鈥� both in bad job quality and low satisfaction. For more details see .

Over the past six months a team from IER led by Chris Warhurst and Derek Bosworth have been constructing and analysing data on the relationship between good work and productivity in the UK. Some of this work was published in a new report by the Carnegie UK Trust and launched at the RSA in London in January.

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