What Hampers Part-Time Work?

An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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This book contributes to clarify the conditions of jobs with shorter working hours and reckons the potential for increasing part-time employment in Germany. Two crucial obstacles of part-time employment are addressed: Firstly, the wage structure and its implications for labor supply, and secondly, the lack of job offers for part-time employees. The Netherlands - known as the first part-time economy in the world - is used as a benchmark for the German case. The empirical analyses in this book are based on representative household data for Gemany and the Netherlands.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-12-10
Mått155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieZEW Economic Studies
Antal sidor174
FörlagPhysica-Verlag GmbH & Co
ISBN9783790800067

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1 Introduction.- 1.1 Motivation of the research questions.- 1.2 What we know about work-sharing.- 1.3 Description of the data used in this book.- 1.4 Structure of the book.- 2 The part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Why should wages depend upon hours worked?.- 2.3 Empirical methodology.- 2.4 The specification of the econometric model.- 2.5 Data sets, sample selection and definition of the variables.- 2.6 Descriptive figures on working hours and wages.- 2.7 Estimation results of the simultaneous model.- 2.8 Summary and conclusions.- 3 Does the part-time wage gap matter?.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Data and some descriptive analyses.- 3.3 The econometric model.- 3.4 Estimation results.- 3.5 Equalizing part-time and full-time wage rates.- 3.6 Summary and conclusion.- 4 Loosening hours restrictions.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 German and Dutch employment systems and economic structures.- 4.3 Descriptions of the data sets.- 4.4 Comparing the match of desired and actual hours across countries.- 4.5 A model of actual working hours.- 4.6 Inference from the estimation results.- 4.7 Summary and conclusions.- 5 Final conclusions and policy implications.- A Appendix to Chapter 2.- A.1 Evaluation of the Likelihood Function.- A.2 Expected values of hourly wage rates in the simultaneous model.- A.3 Further empirical results.- B Appendix to Chapter 3.- B.1 The bootstrap method.- B.2 Orthogonalizing group-specific dummy variables.- B.3 Remarks on the German tax and benefit system.- B.4 Further empirical results.- C Appendix to Chapter 4.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- References.