This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....

This paper uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. We find evidence of small labour supply effects for two...

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly affected by the working hours. In...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Beitritts Polens zur EU gewinnt die Frage einen erhöhten Stellenwert, wie die noch weitgehend starren Arbeitszeitregelungen in Polen an westeuropäische Flexibilitätsstandards angepasst werden könnten. Der vorliegende Konferenzbeitrag informiert u.a. über die...

Auf Einladung der deutsch-polnischen Juristen-Vereinigung e.V. in Warschau wurde im Rahmen einer Konferenz drei besonders interessierende Themen aus dem Bereich „flexible Beschäftigungsformen und flexible Arbeitszeitgestaltung in Deutschland“ behandelt und in der vorliegenden verkürzten...

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...

This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women’s labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...