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

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Buddelmeyer, Hielke (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and IZA Bonn)
Mourre, Gilles (ECFIN, European Commission)
Ward, Melanie () (European Central Bank, CEPR and IZA Bonn)

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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.

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Keywords: labour market mobility and flexibility; labour supply; full-time and part-time employment; unemployment; non-employment; gender; stepping stones; labour market entry and exit;

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J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - General

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  1. Buddelmeyer, Hielke & Mourre, Gilles & Ward, Melanie, 2004. "Recent Developments in Part-Time Work in EU-15 Countries: Trends and Policy," IZA Discussion Papers 1415, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  7. Buddelmeyer, Hielke & Mourre, Gilles & Ward, Melanie, 2004. "The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data," IZA Discussion Papers 1361, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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