Labor market regulation and the cyclicality of involuntary part-time work

Markefke, Theresa; Müller-Rehm, Rebekka

doi:10.1186/s12651-024-00363-0

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Incidence of (involuntary) part-time work by labor market group, sector, and federal state

From: Labor market regulation and the cyclicality of involuntary part-time work

	Involuntary						Employment
	Part-time			Part-time			Share
	2002	2010	2017	2002	2010	2017	2002	2010	2017
All	0.025	0.051	0.028	0.207	0.263	0.279	1	1	1
Demographic groups
All 17–26	0.020	0.041	0.019	0.140	0.221	0.258	0.116	0.109	0.096
Men 27–36	0.013	0.040	0.018	0.066	0.111	0.108	0.123	0.106	0.112
Women 27–36	0.033	0.057	0.032	0.318	0.349	0.337	0.100	0.091	0.094
Men 37–56	0.008	0.021	0.015	0.032	0.059	0.064	0.295	0.283	0.252
Women 37–56	0.051	0.088	0.045	0.449	0.519	0.521	0.243	0.248	0.226
All 57–66	0.026	0.061	0.037	0.233	0.267	0.297	0.113	0.147	0.193
All 67+	0.012	0.011	0.007	0.599	0.668	0.711	0.010	0.016	0.027
Occupations
Clerks	0.021	0.052	0.019	0.292	0.344	0.336	0.130	0.122	0.132
Craft	0.008	0.021	0.012	0.046	0.069	0.082	0.168	0.147	0.125
Elementary occupations	0.078	0.168	0.099	0.442	0.525	0.562	0.075	0.076	0.074
Managers	0.004	0.008	0.003	0.049	0.085	0.074	0.066	0.064	0.048
Plant and machine operators	0.013	0.027	0.017	0.077	0.113	0.134	0.073	0.070	0.061
Professionals	0.019	0.020	0.013	0.162	0.199	0.241	0.139	0.163	0.185
Services and sales	0.057	0.112	0.065	0.393	0.485	0.454	0.120	0.126	0.142
Technicians	0.020	0.037	0.016	0.209	0.262	0.268	0.214	0.219	0.231
Industries
Business activities & real estate	0.034	0.074	0.034	0.259	0.322	0.330	0.089	0.107	0.112
Construction	0.012	0.022	0.013	0.078	0.104	0.118	0.078	0.069	0.070
Education	0.053	0.074	0.038	0.349	0.410	0.438	0.058	0.067	0.069
Electricity, gas and water	0.003	0.028	0.008	0.063	0.104	0.110	0.008	0.013	0.014
Financial intermediation	0.007	0.016	0.009	0.170	0.197	0.241	0.038	0.035	0.032
Health and social work	0.034	0.064	0.041	0.316	0.395	0.429	0.109	0.125	0.132
Hotels and restaurants	0.057	0.099	0.069	0.295	0.443	0.456	0.035	0.040	0.038
Manufacturing	0.008	0.017	0.008	0.103	0.118	0.120	0.242	0.210	0.195
Other services	0.038	0.075	0.043	0.296	0.401	0.428	0.058	0.042	0.043
Public administration and defence	0.014	0.023	0.012	0.158	0.181	0.209	0.082	0.076	0.070
Logistics and communication	0.021	0.045	0.024	0.141	0.206	0.206	0.058	0.084	0.083
Wholesale and retail trade	0.040	0.085	0.042	0.296	0.351	0.332	0.143	0.131	0.142
Federal states
West
Schleswig–Holstein	0.021	0.044	0.025	0.232	0.270	0.301	0.034	0.035	0.034
Hamburg	0.025	0.034	0.024	0.222	0.247	0.250	0.022	0.023	0.024
Lower Saxony	0.021	0.049	0.027	0.229	0.279	0.284	0.092	0.091	0.094
Bremen	0.031	0.069	0.039	0.235	0.353	0.319	0.007	0.007	0.008
North Rhine-Westphalia	0.014	0.042	0.025	0.217	0.275	0.285	0.208	0.208	0.207
Hesse	0.018	0.040	0.023	0.216	0.275	0.293	0.078	0.076	0.077
Rhineland-Palatinate	0.017	0.048	0.021	0.220	0.300	0.303	0.049	0.049	0.049
Baden-Württemberg	0.011	0.032	0.019	0.224	0.270	0.290	0.139	0.138	0.142
Bavaria	0.012	0.030	0.014	0.213	0.265	0.269	0.163	0.163	0.167
Saarland	0.019	0.029	0.019	0.224	0.282	0.293	0.012	0.012	0.011
East
Berlin	0.049	0.073	0.051	0.205	0.263	0.273	0.041	0.041	0.044
Brandenburg	0.066	0.076	0.053	0.143	0.186	0.235	0.030	0.032	0.029
Mecklenburg western pomerania	0.074	0.095	0.055	0.146	0.215	0.299	0.019	0.019	0.018
Saxony	0.084	0.130	0.056	0.157	0.223	0.259	0.050	0.049	0.047
Saxony-Anhalt	0.060	0.124	0.069	0.122	0.205	0.225	0.028	0.028	0.024
Thuringia	0.054	0.085	0.054	0.125	0.207	0.247	0.029	0.028	0.025

Share of workers in part-time and involuntary part-time for the years 2002, 2010 and 2017 for labor market groups, sectors, and federal states as well as the overall employment share of the respective group
Source: European Labour Force Survey, own calculations using sampling weights of the Labour Force Survey

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