%0 Report
        %A Künn-Nelen, Annemarie
%A Grip, Andries de
%A Fouarge, Didier
        %T Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5423
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5423
        %X This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a “hard” physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that part-time employment enables firms to allocate labor more efficiently. First, firms with part-time workers can bridge the gap between opening hours and a full-time work week. Second, we find that during opening hours part-time workers are scheduled differently than full-timers. For example, we find that part-time workers enable their full-time colleagues to take lunch breaks so that the firm can remain open during these times.
        %K timing of labor demand
%K heterogeneous labor
%K matched employer-employee data
%K allocation of labor