Is Part-time Employment Here to Stay? Working Hours of Dutch Women over Successive Generations

Bösch, Nicole; Deelen, Anja; Euwals, Rob

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00470.x

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“…In our data, weekly working hours of women show peaks at 20 and 32 h. need for organizational flexibility, related to the shift from manufacturing to services, might have contributed. Bosch et al (2010) analyze the growth of part-time work distinguishing between age, calender time, and cohort effects. They find that the incidence of part-time work has increased over successive generations at the expense of full-time and small part-time jobs.…”

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“…From 35 h per week onwards, jobs are full-time jobs. Bosch et al (2010) use the following definitions (in hours per week): 1-11 small part-time jobs, 12-24 intermediate part-time jobs, 25-34 large part-time jobs, and ≥ 35 full-time jobs. In our data, weekly working hours of women show peaks at 20 and 32 h. need for organizational flexibility, related to the shift from manufacturing to services, might have contributed.…”

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Part-time jobs: what women want?

Booth

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2012

J Popul Econ

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Part-time jobs are common among partnered women in many countries. There are two opposing views on the efficiency implications of so many women working part-time. The negative view is that part-time jobs imply wastage of resources and underutilization of investments in human capital since many part-time working women are highly educated. The positive view is that, without the existence of part-time jobs, female labor force participation would be substantially lower since women confronted with the choice between a full-time job and zero working hours would opt for the latter. In the Netherlands, the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full-time. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction, a low desire to change their working hours, and live in partnerships in which household production is highly gendered. Taken together, our results suggest that part-time jobs are what most Dutch women want.

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Section: Part-time Work In the Netherlandsmentioning

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Section: Part-time Work In the Netherlandsmentioning

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Part-time jobs: what women want?

Booth

Ours

2012

J Popul Econ

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“…Mothers more often report to be unemployed, or work part-time. In The Netherlands, part time employment is an important form of employment for women with young children (e.g., Bosch et al 2010). Almost 80 % of the children in our sample live with both parents in 9th grade.…”

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Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Value of the Teacher’s Assessment in Predicting Student Ability

2016

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This research investigates to what extent the subjective teacher's assessment of children's ability predicts children's outcomes in the transition from primary to secondary school in terms of initial track allocation, track switching in the first three years of secondary education and subsequent test scores. We apply micro-data from the Netherlands about cognitive test scores and teacher's assessment in primary schools and about track placement, track switching and test scores in secondary schools. Our estimates suggest that the subjective teacher's assessment is about twice as important as the primary school cognitive test scores for initial track placement in secondaryThe programs and data used in this paper are available from the authors upon request. We would like to thank Lex Borghans, Flavio Cunha, Bart Golsteyn, Erzo Luttmer, Marc van der Steeg, Dinand Webbink and Karen van der Wiel for comments on an earlier draft. We are also grateful for useful feedback from an anonymous referee, seminar participants at the CPB, Maastricht University and the University of Philadelphia, conference participants at de Nederlandse Economen Dag in Amsterdam, de Onderwijsresearch Dagen in Brussels, the ESPE conference in Braga, the IWAEE conference in Catanzaro, the EALE in Ljubljana and the EALE-SOLE in Montreal. We also thank the feedback of teachers in Communities of Learning where we discussed our work with the field. school. In addition, the teacher's assessment is more predictive of track allocation in 9th grade compared to cognitive test scores. Next, children who switch tracks are more likely to be placed in tracks based on test scores. Also, test scores in 9th grade are predicted by the subjective teacher's assessment, not by test scores in 6th grade. Electronic supplementary material

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“…it allows them to vary labor input if market demand fluctuates over the week like, in retailing (Euwals and Hogerbrugge, 2006). Bosch et al (2010) find that the incidence of part-time work has increased over successive generations at the expense of full-time and small parttime jobs. As a result, the average working hours of working women remained stable over successive cohorts.…”

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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio

Ours

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored TrainingIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive training as full-time working women. Although we cannot rule out gender-working time specific monopsony power, we speculate that the gender-specific effect of working hours on training has to do with gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age female employees work parttime. Therefore, because of social norms, men working part-time could send a different signal to their employer than women working part-time. This might generate a different propensity of firms to sponsor training of male part-timers than female part-timers.JEL Classification: C33, C35, J24, M51, M53

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Is Part-time Employment Here to Stay? Working Hours of Dutch Women over Successive Generations

Cited by 38 publications

References 25 publications

Part-time jobs: what women want?

Part-time jobs: what women want?

Does the Teacher Beat the Test? The Value of the Teacher’s Assessment in Predicting Student Ability

Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

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