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The Intensive and Extensive Margin of European Labour Supply

Frings, Hanna - 2011

Labour supply is determined by two factors: the participation of workers in the labour market (extensive margin), and the number of hours supplied by those working (intensive margin). Based on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), we analyze which margin is more decisive in...

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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply

Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

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Full-time Workers Want to Work Fewer Hours, Part-time Workers Want to Work Longer Hours

Holst, Elke - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 19, pp. 130-137

Since the reunification of Germany, average working times for men and women have followed different trends. There are … various reasons for the difference. More and more women are gainfully employed; they engage in part-time and marginal … converged, though not the number of working hours preferred by women in the two regions. These numbers remain considerably …

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Vollzeitbeschäftigte wollen kürzere, Teilzeitbeschäftigte längere Arbeitszeiten

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

Die durchschnittlichen Arbeitszeiten haben sich für Frauen und Männer seit der deutschen Vereinigung unterschiedlich entwickelt. Dies hat verschiedene Ursachen: Frauen sind immer häufiger erwerbstätig, Teilzeitarbeit und geringfügige Beschäftigung wird immer häufiger ausgeübt und die...

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Full-time Workers Want to Work Fewer Hours, Part-time Workers Want to Work Longer Hours

Holst, Elke - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 19, pp. 130-137

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071074

Vollzeitbeschäftigte wollen kürzere, Teilzeitbeschäftigte längere Arbeitszeiten

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

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Older workers and working time

Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013

Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...

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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 …

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Can the internet buy working hours of married women in micro and small enterprises? : evidence from Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Sulistyaningrum, Eny; Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Falentina, … - 2021

marketplaces. Married women, who typically reduce the time they allocate to work due to their responsibility to take care of their … women who are the owners or managers of MSEs and also the probability of working for them. We employ IV estimates, and use … working hours of married women. In addition, we find that married women in urban areas increase their working hours when they …

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Part-Time Jobs : What Women Want?

Booth, Alison L. - 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 transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

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