Why do Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis.

Arbeitspapier

This empirical paper seeks to determine the relative contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries over the 1980s and 1990s, exploiting a panel of EU countries. In the short-run, the business cycle is found to exert a short-term negative effect on part-time employment developments, which is consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and other structural factors such as changes in legislation affecting part-time employment are found to be key drivers of the rate of part-time employment, significant in the longer run. Overall, although the role of individual factors differs in the 1980s and 1990s, a contribution analysis considering the most significant factors shows that the main structural and institutional variables generally well explain the development in the part-time employment rate in the EU countries, which is not the case in the United States.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 872

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Thema: institutions ; labour market policies ; labour supply ; Part-time employment ; regulations ; the business cycle ; working time organisation ; Teilzeitarbeit ; Konjunktur ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Arbeitsangebot ; Institutionelle Infrastruktur ; EU-Staaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Buddelmeyer, Hielke ; Mourre, Gilles ; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Central Bank (ECB)
• (wo): Frankfurt a. M.
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/153306
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ