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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: wie konsistent sind die Reformen?

Eichhorst, Werner; Thode, Eric - 2009

Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In Deutschland und vielen anderen OECD-Ländern wurden … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland … dem zum Teil entgegen. Insgesamt befindet sich Deutschland in einer durchaus widersprüchlichen Übergangssituation. …

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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand

Hogerbrugge, Maurice; Euwals, Rob - 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....

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty : A Career Perspective

Russo, Giovanni; Hassink, Wolter H.J. - 2005

Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to part-time employment, which is related to its negative effects on workers? career. This may be the...

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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 E. - 2004

This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...

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Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries : Trends and Policy

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004

A growing part-time employment share has been a main feature of a number of industrialized countries over the past two decades. A considerable variation in the rate of part-time work is evident by gender, age group, industrial sector and occupation. The stylized facts support the view that...

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Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement

Hutchens, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper uses a telephone survey of 950 employers to examine employer-side restrictions on phased retirement. Not only did the survey collect information on establishment level policies, it also asked questions about a specific worker’s opportunity for phased retirement. The paper uses these...

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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

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Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Paul, Marie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using data from Spanish Social Security records, we investigate the returns to experience in different flexible work arrangements, including part-time and full-time work, and permanent and fixed-term contracts. We use a trivariate random effects model which consists of a three-equation system...

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Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Kyyrä, Tomi; Arranz, José María; García-Serrano, Carlos - 2017

This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time work on the exit rate to full-time work using a multivariate duration model. Our findings show...

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How damaging is part-time employment to a woman's occupational prospects?

Prowse, Victoria - 2005

This paper investigates the causes of the well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose...

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