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Arbeitszeitwünsche von Frauen und Männern liegen näher beieinander als tatsächliche Arbeitszeiten
Holst, Elke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 14/15, pp. 209-215
In Deutschland liegen die von abhängig Beschäftigten gewünschten Wochenarbeitszeiten im Durchschnitt zwischen knapp 30 Stunden (Frauen) und 40 Stunden (Männer). Sehr lange Wochenarbeitszeiten sind weder für eine Mehrheit von Frauen noch für Männer attraktiv; diesen Befund findet man auch...
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Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy
Addabbo, Tindara (contributor);  … - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro - AIEL
The international literature on non-standard employment has mostly focussed on its impact on employment, and more recently on working and living conditions. This volume explores these issues with special reference to Italy. Italy is characterized by very low participation rates (particularly...
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Pay inequality in 25 European countries
O'Dorchai, Sile - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2008
This paper analyses disparity in women’s pay across 25 European countries using EU-SILC 2005. First, the gender pay gap … all over Europe, except for Poland. Motherhood usually reinforces the gender gap but most discrimination is sex-related so … that it concerns all women as potential mothers. There is no uniform relationship between the parenthood and the gender …
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National Working-Time Regimes and Equal Opportunities
Rubery, Jill; Smith, Mark; Fagan, Colette - In: Feminist Economics 4 (1998) 1, pp. 71-101
allocation of time in both paid and unpaid work. Gender divisions relating to working time arise primarily from differences in … gender divisions within the household but the extent and form that these gender divisions take in the labor market are … different implications for gender equality. Current interests in greater flexibility in working time are leading to pressures to …
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Arbeitsmarkt- und geschlechtsdifferenzielle Einflussfaktoren fuer die Ausuebung einer geringfuegigen Nebenbeschaeftigung (The influence of labour market and gender-related factors...
Schmidt, Tanja; Voss, Dorothea - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 36-57
Arbeitszeit der Haupttaetigkeit einen starken Einfluss darauf haben, ob ein Neben-Minijob ausgeuebt wird. Auch der … determinants of these so-called mini-jobs. Using a hybrid panel model, labour market factors as well as gender and household … further information on gender segregation patterns in the German labour market.) …
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Part-time jobs: what women want?
Booth, Alison; Ours, Jan - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 1, pp. 263-283
Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many...
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison; van Ours, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468702
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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529127
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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness: The Part-time Work Puzzle
Booth, Alison L; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123569