Denia Cuesta, Alfonsa, Guillo, Maria Dolores
An alternative to retirement: part-time work
DENIA CUESTA, Alfonsa; GUILLÓ, María Dolores. An alternative to retirement: part-time work. LEPAS – Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society. Working Paper No. 2012-02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/23703
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Part time work can facilitate participation in the labor market and smooth the transition to retirement. Part-time employment, however, represents for the most part an involuntary choice. The aim of this paper is to conduct an empirical investigation of the determinants of part-time work. Using Spanish labor market data, we find that part-time work becomes a more desired employment alternative as people age, and that education and children’s age have opposite effects on women and men’s probabilities of voluntary part-time employment. Interestingly, most part-time work among women occurs in low-skill occupations, whereas part-time work among men are mainly concentrated in high-skill jobs.
Keywords:Part-time work, Retirement, Involuntary employment
LEPAS – Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society
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