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, t...

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Main Author: Wolf, Elke
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 2003.
Series:ZEW Economic Studies, Publication Series of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany ; 18.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 174 pages 12 illustrations)
ISBN:9783642573743 (electronic bk.)
3642573746 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1615-6781 ;