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

Rob Euwals (r.w.euwals@cpb.nl) and Maurice Hogerbrugge (mauricehogerbrugge@hotmail.com)
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Rob Euwals: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Maurice Hogerbrugge: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

No 1124, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: part-time employment; labour supply; labour demand; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2004-04
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Published - published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 533-557

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