Why Dutch women work part-time: A Oaxaca-decomposition of differences in European female part-time work rates
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| Publication date | 2014 |
| Series | AIAS working paper, 147 |
| Number of pages | 57 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, University of Amsterdam |
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| Abstract | We analyze differences in female part-time work rates across countries using European Social Survey data for 2012 to study composition and selectivity effects by means of Oaxaca-decompositions. A novel treatment of the selection term distinguishes the effect of country differences in employment rates from the effect of pure selectivity. We find that demand-side factors are more important than supply-side factors in explaining differences in part-time work rates, that overall composition effects are small and that employment positively selects women into part-time work. |
| Document type | Working paper |
| Note | July 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://www.uva-aias.net/cpages/download_publication_document/1963 |
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