Part-time work in EU countries
Subtitle: labour market mobility, entry and exit
By: by Hielke Buddelmeyer, Gilles Mourre, Melanie Ward.
Contributors: Mourre, Gilles
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1550; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1550
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Part-time employment -- European Union countries.; Labor mobility -- European Union countries.; Labor market -- European Union countries.; Part-time employment -- United States.; Labor mobility -- United States.; Labor market -- United States.
Description: "This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more frequently taken up as a means to enter the labour market than to leave it. Multinomial logit regression of the determinants of part-time work reveals household composition, past labour market history and country of residence as very important for both men and women in their decision to work part time. Random effects regression controlling for individual heterogeneity, and the comparison of results for Europe and the US, reveals that a significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full-time, over part-time employment, than in the US, with considerable variation across EU countries"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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