Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment. Explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment. Explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Bildung als Determinante der steigenden Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in den Niederlanden : Erklärungen für den Anstieg der Teilzeitarbeit und der Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in den Niederlanden verglichen mit Deutschland.
Quelle	Bonn (2001), 41 S.; 11 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Bonn). 407
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Motivation; Determinante; Arbeitszeitflexibilität; Erwerbstätigkeit; Arbeitsmarkttheorie; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Internationaler Vergleich; Hoch Qualifizierter; Niederlande
Abstract	"Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements like the tax and pension system - often cited as a cause of the Dutch employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women with higher education and a high valuation of market work were the two main causes of rising female participation in the labor force. In addition, greater flexibility in work schedules (part-time work) has relaxed a demand constraint, allowing more women to participate in the labor market. We find: that the increased number of women with higher education has contributed substantially to the rise in female labor force participation; that it was only in the 1990s that the 'behavioral' component contributed as much to rising female labor force participation as the ' structural' (educational) component; that there is no evidence that institutional specifics or the change in institutional arrangements (taxes and pensions) favored female labor force participation or that they provided strong incentives for part-time work; that the work orientation of Dutch women is stronger than that of German women but that there is no evidence of a substantial increase in work orientation during the 1990; that there is no evidence that women were previously demand-constrained in the sense that they desired to work part-time but were prevented by a scarcity of part-time work." (author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2004_(CD)