MARRIED-WOMEN IN THE IRISH PART-TIME LABOR-MARKET

This paper uses an econometric analysis of the 1987 Economic and Socia l Research Institute household survey data to assess the sources of th e growth which has occurred in pare time employment in the last decade . The models used allow both for the possibility that the hours of wor k choice is a discrete one, and for the influence of the demand side o f the labour market on a woman's choice between part-time and full-tim e work. The results confirm the impression gained from descriptive sta tistics that the growth in part-time employment has been supply-led, b ut that the growth of the Services sector has facilitated this increas e.