Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand

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Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well. Evidence from descriptive statistics and a macro-econometric model at the sectoral level of industry suggests that the growth of part-time employment in the 1990s relates strongly to the growth in female labour force participation. Factors of labour demand, like the shift from manufacturing to services, turn out to play a significant role as well.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1124

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
• Subject: labour demand ; labour supply ; part-time employment ; panel data ; Teilzeitarbeit ; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit ; Arbeitsangebot ; Drei-Sektoren-Hypothese ; Schätzung ; Niederlande

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hogerbrugge, Maurice ; Euwals, Rob
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20359
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET