I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France …. Estimation results show that while the presence of children and marital status are related to the choice to work part time in …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages …

We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of parttime penalties in hourly wages and …

Modern systems of official statistics require the timely estimation of area-specific densities of sub …-parametric kernel density estimation that reverses the rounding process by using a Bayesian measurement error model. The methodology is …