Is part-time employment beneficial for firm productivity?
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all employees and a hard physical measure of firm productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that part-time employment enables firms to allocate labor more efficiently. First, firms with part-time workers... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2011 |
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Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / J24 / L23 / L25 / heterogeneous labor / matched employer-employee data / allocation of labor / timing of labor demand / Teilzeitarbeit / Produktivität / Arbeitsnachfrage / Dienstleistungssektor / Pharmazeutische Industrie / Niederlande |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27638773 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46009 |