TY - UNPB

T1 - Working hour arrangements and working hours

T2 - a microeconometric analysis based on German time diary data

AU - Merz, Joachim

AU - Burgert, Derik

N1 - Zsfassung in dt. Sprache

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is still a topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets).This study will contribute to the discussion of working hour arrangements by quantifying patterns of explanation of ‘who is working when within a workday’. In particular we want to disentangle certain working hour patternsand the final hours of work according to those different patterns allowing for market and non-market influences.The daily working hour patterns are analysed by two dimensions: the fragmentation of a working day (by the number of working episodes) and the timing of work time by location of those episodes within the day’s period.Deducting such patterns allows not only to describe possible workday interruptions and workday behaviour in general, but to give hints for which groups of the society non-traditional working time is important. Oncequantified, labour market policy has a sound base for a targeted policy.Our model is based on a microeconomic labour supply approach, however extended by two dimensions: first, by daily working time arrangements with focus on core and non-core working time crossed by number of episodesand, second, by labour supply factors in a market and non-market context. Our microeconometric estimates use a multinomial logit (MNL) model to explain the working hour arrangement probability and a MNL selectivity bias corrected hours estimation for arrangement specific working hours with correct asymptotic covariances. Our study is the first German study of this kind which could analyse the actual available German Time Use Survey 1991/92 from the Federal Statistical Office with ca. 32.000 time diaries.

AB - The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is still a topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets).This study will contribute to the discussion of working hour arrangements by quantifying patterns of explanation of ‘who is working when within a workday’. In particular we want to disentangle certain working hour patternsand the final hours of work according to those different patterns allowing for market and non-market influences.The daily working hour patterns are analysed by two dimensions: the fragmentation of a working day (by the number of working episodes) and the timing of work time by location of those episodes within the day’s period.Deducting such patterns allows not only to describe possible workday interruptions and workday behaviour in general, but to give hints for which groups of the society non-traditional working time is important. Oncequantified, labour market policy has a sound base for a targeted policy.Our model is based on a microeconomic labour supply approach, however extended by two dimensions: first, by daily working time arrangements with focus on core and non-core working time crossed by number of episodesand, second, by labour supply factors in a market and non-market context. Our microeconometric estimates use a multinomial logit (MNL) model to explain the working hour arrangement probability and a MNL selectivity bias corrected hours estimation for arrangement specific working hours with correct asymptotic covariances. Our study is the first German study of this kind which could analyse the actual available German Time Use Survey 1991/92 from the Federal Statistical Office with ca. 32.000 time diaries.

KW - Economics

KW - Arbeitszeitarrangements

KW - Arbeitsstunden

KW - Deutsche Zeitbudgeterhebung

KW - Zeittagebücher

KW - diskret-kontinuierliche erweiterte Arbeitsangebotsmodellierung und MNL/COLS-Schätzung

KW - Working hour arrangements

KW - timing of work time

KW - working hours

KW - German time budget stud

KW - time use diary data

KW - dicrete/continous extended labour supply modelling

KW - MNL/COLS-estimation

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Diskussionspapier

BT - Working hour arrangements and working hours

PB - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe

CY - Lüneburg

ER -