Die Arbeitskosten je vollzeitbeschäftigten Arbeitnehmer im Produzierenden Gewerbe sind im Jahr 2010 wieder deutlich gestiegen: Sie legten in Westdeutschland um 4,0 Prozent auf 56.700 Euro und in Ostdeutschland um 3,2 Prozent auf 37.740 Euro zu. Der deutliche Anstieg ist allerdings im...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the relationship between the distribution of household income and the distribution of working time in six European countries and in the United States. The second objective is to assess how the tax and transfer systems affect the gender...

Within the OECD, there are significant differences in the trend and level of average work hours. [For example, from 1980 to 2000, average working hours per adult (ages 15-64) rose by 234 hours in the USA to 1476 while falling by 170 hours in Germany, to 973]. Since these trends appear to be...

How much of the difference between countries in inequality of the distribution of income can be explained by work - i.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and distribution of working hours. These differences arise...

Ein zentrales Ergebnis dieser Studie ist, dass die Tarifbindung von Betrieben nicht mit einem Mangel an Betriebszeit- und Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung verbunden ist. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. In Relation zu den nicht tarifgebundenen Betrieben weisen die tarifgebundenen Betriebe in der für die...

In der gesellschaftspolitischen Debatte hat die Neugestaltung von Lebensläufen derzeit große Aufmerksamkeit. Lebensläufe diversifizieren sich zunehmend. Es entstehen neuartige Kombinationen und vielfältige Übergänge zwischen Phasen der Erwerbstätigkeit und Erwerbslosigkeit,...

In many occupations workers? labor supply choices are constrained by institutional rules regulating labor time and effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difficult. Here we present evidence from studies examining labor supply responses in...

Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data...

This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women?s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census from 1957 until 2002. Aggregate weekly hours worked per workingage woman are decomposed into hours...

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male...