Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit

Hielke Buddelmeyer (), Gilles Mourre and Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger ()
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Hielke Buddelmeyer: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger: European Central Bank

No 1550, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: non-employment; unemployment; full-time and part-time employment; labour supply; labour market mobility and flexibility; gender; stepping stones; labour market entry and exit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 J22 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2005-04
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