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" What Hampers Part-Time Work? An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective "
by Elke Wolf.
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750674
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by Elke Wolf.
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What Hampers Part-Time Work? An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective\ by Elke Wolf.
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Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD Imprint: Physica, 2003
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ZEW Economic Studies, Publication Series of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, 18
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(x, 174 Seiten 5 Illustrationen)
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3642573746
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: 9783642573743
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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?.- 2.2.1 Brief discussion of some theoretical approaches.- 2.2.2 Institutional framework and part-time wage gap.- 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.- 2.7.1 Models imposing a uniform wage-hours profile.- 2.7.2 Models allowing for group-specific wage-hours profiles.- 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.- 3.3.1 The discrete choice model of labor supply.- 3.3.2 Calculating household net income.- 3.3.3 Hours restrictions.- 3.4 Estimation results.- 3.4.1 Wage equations.- 3.4.2 Labor supply models.- 3.4.3 Elasticities.- 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.- 4.2.1 Unions and wages.- 4.2.2 Recent trends in working-time policy.- 4.2.3 Social security systems.- 4.2.4 Active labor market policy.- 4.2.5 Temporary workers.- 4.2.6 Sectoral structure.- 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.- 4.5.1 Specification of the empirical model.- 4.5.2 Some remarks about the endogeneity of desired hours.- 4.5.3 A brief discussion of the estimation results.- 4.6 Inference from the estimation results.- 4.6.1 Changing distribution of working hours.- 4.6.2 Effects on the match between desire and reality.- 4.6.3 How about employment effects?.- 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.
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Flexible Arbeitszeit
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Labor economics
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Teilzeitbeschäftigung
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Elke Wolf
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