Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20160 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 922
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual 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 patterns and 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. Based on an extended microeconomic labour supply/household production 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.
Subjects: 
working hour arrangements
timing of work time
German time budget study
discrete/continuous extended labour supply modeling
MNL/COLS-estimation
JEL: 
J29
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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