ABSTRACT
Among the European countries, other divisions of emphasis emerge. In Sweden, the FRG and the UK, for example, the relationship between part-time employment and total employment/unemployment is an important issue largely because of the highly significant growth of part-time female employment in these countries since the Second World War. As another example, the FRG devotes rather more attention to short-time working than do most other European countries and, in fact, it finances short-time directly through its unemployment insurance system.
