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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply
Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 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 analyse which margin is more decisive in...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019003
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071074
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
incentives to increase the time spent working can be well complemented by policies which ensure that experienced young women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492126
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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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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...
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Does temporal and locational flexibility of work increase the supply of working hours? : evidence from the Netherlands
Possenriede, Daniel; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Plantenga, … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-34
In recent years, many employees have gained more control over temporal and locational aspects of their work via a variety of flexible work arrangements, such as flexi-time and telehomework. This temporal and locational flexibility of work (TLF) is often seen as a means to facilitate the...
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