Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries
The article analyses the prevalence of part-time employment in different EU countries with a focus on the factors affecting the rate of part-time employment across the EU. Based on the literature review, a distinction is made between three groups of factors that are relevant for the rate of part-tim...
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| author | Miežienė Rasa Krutulienė Sandra Gruževskis Boguslavas |
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| description | The article analyses the prevalence of part-time employment in different EU countries with a focus on the factors affecting the rate of part-time employment across the EU. Based on the literature review, a distinction is made between three groups of factors that are relevant for the rate of part-time employment, in particular, cyclical factors, political and institutional factors, and structural factors. The article analyses how these factors influence part-time employment rates in EU countries. The linear regression analysis based on EU-28 macroeconomic data for the period of 2007-2018 has shown that all three groups of determinants (i.e. cyclical, political and institutional as well as structural factors) affect the rate of part-time employment in the EU-28. Part-time employment is a complex phenomenon which depends on a number of factors. However, the regression analysis has found that the following political and institutional as well as structural independent variables are also significant predictors of part-time employment rates in EU Member States (EU-28): average annual wages, the tax rate on low wage earners, expenditures on children and family benefits as a percentage of gross domestic product, trade union density, and the activity rate of people aged 15-24 and 55-64. Cyclical factors (the unemployment rate in Model (1) and real GDP per capita in Model (2)) have also been found to have a significant effect on part-time employment in EU-28 countries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff0626bf698a4bd6946c4e3c19f3b8072022-12-21T20:48:03ZengSciendoReview of Economic Perspectives1804-16632021-06-0121215117110.2478/revecp-2021-0007Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU CountriesMiežienė Rasa0Krutulienė Sandra1Gruževskis Boguslavas2Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Department of Labour Market Research, Vilnius, Lithuania.Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Department of Labour Market Research, Vilnius, Lithuania.Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Department of Labour Market Research, Vilnius, Lithuania.The article analyses the prevalence of part-time employment in different EU countries with a focus on the factors affecting the rate of part-time employment across the EU. Based on the literature review, a distinction is made between three groups of factors that are relevant for the rate of part-time employment, in particular, cyclical factors, political and institutional factors, and structural factors. The article analyses how these factors influence part-time employment rates in EU countries. The linear regression analysis based on EU-28 macroeconomic data for the period of 2007-2018 has shown that all three groups of determinants (i.e. cyclical, political and institutional as well as structural factors) affect the rate of part-time employment in the EU-28. Part-time employment is a complex phenomenon which depends on a number of factors. However, the regression analysis has found that the following political and institutional as well as structural independent variables are also significant predictors of part-time employment rates in EU Member States (EU-28): average annual wages, the tax rate on low wage earners, expenditures on children and family benefits as a percentage of gross domestic product, trade union density, and the activity rate of people aged 15-24 and 55-64. Cyclical factors (the unemployment rate in Model (1) and real GDP per capita in Model (2)) have also been found to have a significant effect on part-time employment in EU-28 countries.https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2021-0007part-time employmentpart-time workcyclical factorspolitical and institutional factorsstructural factorsj22j81 |
| spellingShingle | Miežienė Rasa Krutulienė Sandra Gruževskis Boguslavas Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries Review of Economic Perspectives part-time employment part-time work cyclical factors political and institutional factors structural factors j22 j81 |
| title | Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries |
| title_full | Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries |
| title_fullStr | Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries |
| title_short | Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries |
| title_sort | identifying the main determinants of part time employment in eu countries |
| topic | part-time employment part-time work cyclical factors political and institutional factors structural factors j22 j81 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2021-0007 |
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