Identifying the main determinants of part-time employment in EU Countries

Artikel

The article analyses the prevalence of part-time employment in different EU countries with a focus on the factors affecting the rate of part-time employment across the EU. Based on the literature review, a distinction is made between three groups of factors that are relevant for the rate of part-time employment, in particular, cyclical factors, political and institutional factors, and structural factors. The article analyses how these factors influence part-time employment rates in EU countries. The linear regression analysis based on EU-28 macroeconomic data for the period of 2007-2018 has shown that all three groups of determinants (i.e. cyclical, political and institutional as well as structural factors) affect the rate of part-time employment in the EU-28. Part-time employment is a complex phenomenon which depends on a number of factors. However, the regression analysis has found that the following political and institutional as well as structural independent variables are also significant predictors of part-time employment rates in EU Member States (EU-28): average annual wages, the tax rate on low wage earners, expenditures on children and family benefits as a percentage of gross domestic product, trade union density, and the activity rate of people aged 15-24 and 55-64. Cyclical factors (the unemployment rate in Model (1) and real GDP per capita in Model (2)) have also been found to have a significant effect on part-time employment in EU-28 countries.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Review of Economic Perspectives ; ISSN: 1804-1663 ; Volume: 21 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 151-171 ; Warsaw: De Gruyter

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions
• Thema: part-time employment ; part-time work ; cyclical factors ; political and institutional factors ; structural factors

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Miežienė, Rasa ; Krutulienė, Sandra ; Gruževskis, Boguslavas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): De Gruyter
• (wo): Warsaw
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.2478/revecp-2021-0007
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/249944
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ