Working hours and wishes concerning working hours among women in Western and Eastern Germany

Abstract

"The report firstly provides an overview of the employment situation and the wishes concerning working hours among women in Germany. This part outlines the extent of the employment problems and the discrepancies between real and ideal conditions on the labour market. Secondly wishes and reality in the organisation of the working time (duration and position of working hours, flexible working hours, e.g. part-time work, overtime, weekend work) of employed women are illustrated.<br> The findings show that under favourable labour market conditions considerably more women would be working. With regard to the expansion of part-time work, which is desirable from a labour market policy point of view, the analysis came to the result that the willingness to do more part-time work has fallen considerably and that for many women an intention to switch to part-time work is linked with certain job requirements being met. Under the given conditions, one could not expect female employees to adapt voluntarily on the whole if weekend work were to be expandes either." (author's abstrace, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Beckmann, P. (1998): Working hours and wishes concerning working hours among women in Western and Eastern Germany. Results of an empirical study from 1995. In: IAB Labour Market Research Topics No. 27, p. 1-32.