What Hampers Part-Time Work?

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

 

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. 

décembre 2002, env. 174 pages, ZEW Economic Studies, Anglais
Springer EN
978-3-7908-0006-7

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