Table 7 Preferred and actual weekly working hours

Age: 26–35 Years (Ref: 18–25)

−2.8072***

0.9346

−4.4669***

0.7639

3.4974***

−0.0707

3.0895***

6.6477***

2.0932*

(0.7563)

(1.0208)

(1.0147)

(0.7226)

(1.0622)

(0.9276)

(0.9337)

(1.3198)

(1.2361)

Age: 36–45 Years

−4.0837***

0.7573

−5.7636***

−1.0093

2.4047**

−2.4865**

1.5538

5.8160***

0.2791

(0.7452)

(0.9384)

(1.0150)

(0.7710)

(1.0952)

(1.0292)

(0.9664)

(1.3366)

(1.3249)

Age: 46–55 Years

−5.5939***

−1.4789

−8.0066***

−1.6334**

2.3495**

−4.1717***

−0.7096

3.7930***

−3.1625**

(0.7765)

(1.0309)

(1.0746)

(0.7906)

(1.1003)

(1.0606)

(1.0442)

(1.4622)

(1.4286)

Age: 56–65 Years

−6.8624***

−2.9777**

−10.1251***

−3.4772***

0.2108

−5.6007***

−2.8735*

1.7414

−5.7868***

(1.0061)

(1.2791)

(1.6439)

(1.1047)

(1.4860)

(1.8009)

(1.5385)

(2.0876)

(2.1417)

Female

−7.7125***

−9.0449***

−12.3795***

(0.4705)

(0.4618)

(0.5942)

Children

−3.0764***

0.7184

−5.0129***

−3.8918***

0.8612

−7.8543***

−5.5372***

0.6800

−10.7098***

(0.5423)

(0.7014)

(0.7560)

(0.4866)

(0.6651)

(0.6791)

(0.6216)

(0.8561)

(0.8468)

School: Intermediate School (Ref: Secondary School)

−0.8089

0.2234

−1.1235

−0.0536

−0.8587

0.5422

1.0936

−0.1804

2.1164**

(0.5532)

(0.6973)

(0.7876)

(0.5988)

(0.7948)

(0.8199)

(0.7758)

(1.0938)

(1.0398)

School: Upper School

−1.0673

−1.1108

−0.4491

−2.0580***

−2.0417*

−2.3708**

−2.0468**

−5.2314***

−0.0255

(0.7571)

(1.0810)

(0.9641)

(0.7811)

(1.1327)

(1.0552)

(0.9554)

(1.4443)

(1.2381)

Vocational Degree

1.0325*

1.4039**

0.8436

3.0667***

1.6156*

3.8076***

3.1147***

1.5797

3.5434***

(0.5647)

(0.6859)

(0.7503)

(0.5865)

(0.8386)

(0.7739)

(0.7388)

(1.0462)

(0.9846)

College Degree

2.4035***

2.4639

2.4907**

4.3629***

1.9600*

5.3730***

6.3456***

5.4331***

6.2646***

(0.8951)

(1.5971)

(1.0259)

(0.7471)

(1.0657)

(0.9931)

(0.9908)

(1.4282)

(1.3119)

Health: Normal (Ref: Good)

−0.2383

−0.1607

−0.2152

0.1881

0.2448

0.0931

0.4025

−0.0546

0.5455

(0.5598)

(0.7703)

(0.7216)

(0.5312)

(0.7400)

(0.7089)

(0.6688)

(0.9479)

(0.8560)

Health: Bad

1.0623

0.4617

0.8898

−0.2834

0.2880

0.0761

−0.2775

−1.2535

1.0579

(0.6486)

(0.8335)

(0.9035)

(0.8385)

(1.2526)

(1.0371)

(1.1995)

(1.7495)

(1.5274)

Household Income

−1.1407***

1.4748***

−2.8197***

−0.0684

1.1116

−0.8210

3.9578***

4.9854***

3.4911***

(0.3980)

(0.5433)

(0.5349)

(0.4926)

(0.7368)

(0.6190)

(0.6178)

(0.9234)

(0.7958)

German

−0.7784

3.8876***

−2.3240*

−1.4296

−0.3105

−0.7721

−1.9503

−1.1907

−0.2082

(1.0001)

(1.3251)

(1.3181)

(0.9485)

(1.1026)

(1.4767)

(1.2129)

(1.6065)

(1.6918)

Unemployment Rate

−0.0933

0.0363

−0.1645

−0.1555

0.0150

−0.0062

−0.5432

0.1214

−0.7837

(0.3592)

(0.5246)

(0.4711)

(0.3341)

(0.4705)

(0.4678)

(0.4646)

(0.6687)

(0.6257)

Year 2008

0.3331

0.4747

0.2515

−1.1242

−1.3710

−0.3478

−0.9949

−1.1127

−0.5096

(0.8048)

(1.1332)

(1.0470)

(0.7259)

(1.0443)

(0.9710)

(0.9554)

(1.3734)

(1.2492)

Federal States

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Constant

52.3702***

22.3605***

61.6668***

41.1011***

26.3513***

38.3001***

15.3961**

−0.8641

8.6833

(5.0219)

(6.8793)

(6.5655)

(5.4649)

(7.7169)

(7.1140)

(6.9622)

(10.1976)

(8.9957)

R ²

0.2604

0.0823

0.2601

0.2717

0.0721

0.2673

0.2818

0.1374

0.2472

Adjusted R ²

0.2485

0.0468

0.2405

0.2600

0.0407

0.2458

0.2703

0.1082

0.2252

F-Test

23.9937

1.9116

19.2132

25.0348

2.0623

15.7000

28.3786

4.5401

13.3876

Number of observations

1905

780

1125

1907

888

1019

1907

888

1019

Number of individuals

1520

617

905

1757

819

938

1757

819

938