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Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries: Trends and Policy
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
PTR across countries are significantly affected by policy and institutions. In particular policy measures geared toward … legal framework directly affecting part-time positions and the creation of financial incentives (subsidies and improvement … of social protection) to take up a part-time job. Moreover, other labour market institutions, including benefit systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763827
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822753
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Older Women: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497590
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Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497594
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700867
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Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566628
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Wie nachhaltig ist das deutsche Jobwunder? Eine Reformbilanz
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu, sondern den Einschnitten bei den passiven Leistungen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Insbesondere die Abschaffung der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592165
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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand
Euwals, Rob; Hogerbrugge, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761645
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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
Becchetti, Leonardo; Massari, Riccardo; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF regression, we analyse the increase in happiness inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007,...
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884315