Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wolf, Elke

Titel

What Hampers Part-Time Work?: An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Springer Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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. .