عنوان

What Hampers Part-Time Work? An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective

شابک

3642573746

شابک

9783642573743

شماره

b570633

عنوان اصلي

What Hampers Part-Time Work? An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Elke Wolf.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD Imprint

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Physica

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2003

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(x, 174 Seiten 5 Illustrationen)

عنوان فروست

ZEW Economic Studies, Publication Series of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, 18

متن يادداشت

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.

موضوع مستند نشده

Flexible Arbeitszeit

موضوع مستند نشده

Labor economics

موضوع مستند نشده

Teilzeitbeschäftigung

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

by Elke Wolf.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Elke Wolf

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y