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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 [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2003

Ort / Verlag

Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references.
• 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.
• 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 Germany and the Netherlands. .
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