{"id":285310,"date":"2025-07-23T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285310\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:37:14","slug":"non-eu-citizens-more-likely-to-work-part-time-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285310\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-EU citizens more likely to work part-time &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, non-<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a> citizens accounted for 22.2% of part-time work in total employment in the EU and EU citizens residing in another EU country made up 20.8%. Both categories had higher shares than EU nationals residing in their country, which stood at 16.6%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Between 2014 and 2024, EU nationals consistently registered the lowest shares of part-time employment. From 2014 onwards, the share of part-time employment in total employment showed a downward trend in all 3 categories, particularly among non-EU citizens, whose levels have narrowed towards those of EU citizens residing in another EU country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ba2f5b0c-3b62-ac51-023f-d1bee2bfaf56\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Share of part-time employment in total employment in the EU, by citizenship, 2014-2024 (%, people 20-64 years old). Timeline. Link to full dataset below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ba2f5b0c-3b62-ac51-023f-d1bee2bfaf56\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/e254ce66-a187-43e0-aaf3-34d6e35a301f?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lfsa_eppgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Regardless of citizenship, at the EU level, women had higher shares of part-time employment than men. In 2024, the biggest gap between women and men was registered among citizens of another EU country, where 35.8% of employed women work part-time compared with 7.9% of men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">For women from non-EU countries, 36.8% were employed part-time, whereas for men, that share was significantly lower at 11.8%. Among nationals of a reporting country, 27.0% women and 7.4% men were employed part-time respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1f45e8f4-712e-2ceb-72b3-044b9c304411\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Part-time workers in the EU by citizenship, 2024 (% of total employment, by sex, 20-64 years old). Bar chart. link to full dataset below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1f45e8f4-712e-2ceb-72b3-044b9c304411\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset:<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/7900f413-0acd-4d5c-bb18-05c098563f0a?lang=en&amp;page=time:2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> lfsa_eppgan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, non-EU citizens accounted for 22.2% of part-time work in total employment in the EU and EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,64410,897,47118,64411,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-285310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-lfs","12":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114902823519225132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}