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Why do Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis.

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2008

This empirical paper seeks to determine the relative contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries over the 1980s and 1990s, exploiting a panel of EU countries. In the short-run, the business cycle is found to exert a...

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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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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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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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Part-time work in EU countries: labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 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...

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Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 1999

In the empirical literature on labour supply, several static models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address to what extent working hours are constrained within jobs, and to what extent working hours can be adjusted by means of changing employer. The...

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Vollzeitbeschäftigte wollen kürzere, Teilzeitbeschäftigte längere Arbeitszeiten

Holst, Elke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 25, pp. 409-415

entwickelt. Dies hat verschiedene Ursachen: Frauen sind immer häufiger erwerbstätig, Teilzeitarbeit und geringfügige …

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Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries

Bardasi, Elena; Gornick, Janet C. - 2000

consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom … everywhere, ranging from 8-12% in Canada and Germany, to 15% in the UK, to as high as 22% in the US and Italy, meaning that part … in Germany do we find evidence of 'discrimination' against part-time workers. …

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Arbeitskräftepotenziale der deutschen Wirtschaft: Chancen für Wachstum und Konsolidierung

Hüther, Michael; Jung, Markos; Obst, Thomas - 2021

Erwerbspersonenpotenzial in Deutschland in der nächsten Dekade aus. Ein sinkendes gesamtwirtschaftliches Arbeitsvolumen schwächt das …Germany's labour market faces substantial challenges caused by demographic change in the next decade. Looking back over …

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Employment of Mothers After Childbirth: French-German Comparison

Weber, Andrea Maria; Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

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