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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment Explanations for the Increase in Part-Time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2021
employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women … more women to participate in the labor market. We find: - that the increased number of women with higher education has … Dutch women is stronger than that of German women but that there is no evidence of a substantial increase in work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320708
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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison
Marotzke, Petra - 2019
I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France … working part time in Germany exceeds that in France among married women and among women with children, while there is hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014104
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The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper
Wolf, Elke - 2013
measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both, men and women. A very robust finding is that part-time working men are … subject to higher wage cuts than women. The specification accommodating all available information and the biasing effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338945
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Estimating labor supply in self-employment : pitfalls and resolutions
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2017
The small extant literature on the working hours of self-employed workers is deficient, because it often lacks a clear theoretical underpinning and suffers from three common mistakes: including the hourly wage as an explanatory variable, controlling for input factors of production, and not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011720946
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Estimating labor supply in self-employment: Pitfalls and resolutions
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2017
The small extant literature on the working hours of self-employed workers is deficient, because it often lacks a clear theoretical underpinning and suffers from three common mistakes: including the hourly wage as an explanatory variable, controlling for input factors of production, and not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746662
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Arbeitskräftepotenziale der deutschen Wirtschaft : Chancen für Wachstum und Konsolidierung
Hüther, Michael; Jung, Markos; Obst, Thomas - 2021
Der demographische Wandel stellt unsere Gesellschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig macht ein Rückblick auf die vergangene Dekade im deutschen Arbeitsmarkt deutlich, dass der Aufbau zusätzlicher Beschäftigung durch eine verbesserte Erwerbsintegration ein bedeutsamer Schlüssel zur...
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340857
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution?
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich C.; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of parttime penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from −28.3% to −7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343107
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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates
Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451023
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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates
Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452422