Part-time Employment and Business Cycle in Central and Eastern Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F17%3A00478462" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/17:00478462 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2017-0009" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2017-0009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/revecp-2017-0009" target="_blank" >10.1515/revecp-2017-0009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Part-time Employment and Business Cycle in Central and Eastern Europe

Original language description

This article explores the development of part-time employment in Central and Eastern Europe and compares it to Western Europe. On the macro level it examines the role of the business cycle and its effect on part-time employment in the two groups of countries since 2001. The key result reveals that contrary to the West, the business cycle development exerts a significant negative effect on the part-time employment rate in Eastern Europe. When the economy operates below its potential, part-time employment tends to grow more than full-time employment. This finding is consistent with the labour demand effect and reflects the pursuit of flexibility by firms as well as the adjustment in composition of employment to changing economic conditions. The countercyclical effect is even stronger for involuntary part-time employment. Separate analyses of individual demographic groups of workers reveal a significant negative effect of the business cycle on part-time employment of older workers and male prime-age workers in Eastern Europe. In contrast, the effect is insignificant for young workers and unclear for prime-age women.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-15008S" target="_blank" >GA14-15008S: Changing work and job values in the Czech Republic in a comparative perspective</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Národohospodářský obzor

ISSN

1213-2446

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

179-203

UT code for WoS article

000406945900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021352456