Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I … measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both, men and women in East and West Germany. A very robust finding is that part …-constant unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in East and West Germany. Furthermore, the type of …

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …