TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Buddelmeyer, Hielke
AU  - Mourre, Gilles
AU  - Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E.
        TI  - Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit
        PY  - 2005/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1550
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1550
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - non-employment
KW  - unemployment
KW  - full-time and part-time employment
KW  - labour supply
KW  - labour market mobility and flexibility
KW  - gender
KW  - stepping stones
KW  - labour market entry and exit
        ER  -