Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … lower wages than comparable full-time workers. The results further point out that more experienced women, who accumulated …

non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample … between employment breaks due to registered unemployment, formal parental leave, training or other reasons - a distinction … which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that …

differentials of part-time jobs, the model with endogenous wages predicts lower part-time employment than the standard neoclassical … taken into account. We extend the neoclassical labor supply model in two directions. First, we allow for endogenous wages …

accounts using GSOEP data from 2002. We compare wages of employees with and without work time accounts by propensity score … matching. Our results indicate that work time accountees receive higher wages on average, thus suggesting an employer …

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups 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. …