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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Booth, Alison L.
• van Ours, Jan C.

Titel

Part-time jobs: what women want?

Ist Teil von

• Journal of population economics, 2013-01, Vol.26 (1), p.263-283

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be substantially lower since women confronted with the choice between a full-time job and zero working hours would opt for the latter. 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-time. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction, a low desire to change their working hours, and live in partnerships in which household production is highly gendered. Taken together, our results suggest that part-time jobs are what most Dutch women want.