Working Hour Arrangements and Working Hours – A Microeconometric Analysis Based on German Time Use Diary Data

Joachim Merz and Derik Burgert ()
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Derik Burgert: Leuphana University Lüneburg

No 922, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed ( keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will contribute to the discussion of working hour arrangements by quantifying patterns of explanation of ‘who is working when within a workday’. In particular we want to disentangle certain working hour patterns and the final hours of work according to those different patterns allowing for market and non-market influences. The daily working hour patterns are analysed by two dimensions: the fragmentation of a working day (by the number of working episodes) and the timing of work time by location of those episodes within the day’s period. Based on an extended microeconomic labour supply/household production our microeconometric estimates use a multinomial logit (MNL) model to explain the working hour arrangement probability and a MNL selectivity bias corrected hours estimation for arrangement specific working hours with correct asymptotic covariances. Our study is the first German study of this kind which could analyse the actual available German Time Use Survey 1991/92 from the Federal Statistical Office with ca. 32.000 time diaries.

Keywords: discrete/continuous extended labour supply modeling; MNL/COLS-estimation; German time budget study; working hours; working hour arrangements; timing of work time; time use diary data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2003-11
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