The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual topic
in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time
work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour
markets). This study will contribute to the discussion of working hour arrangements by
quantifying patterns of explanation of ‘who is working when within a workday’. In particular we
want to disentangle certain working hour patterns and the final hours of work according to
those different patterns allowing for market and non-market influences. The daily working
hour patterns are analysed by two dimensions: the fragmentation of a working day (by the
number of working episodes) and the timing of work time by location of those episodes within
the day’s period. Based on an extended microeconomic labour supply/household production
our microeconometric estimates use a multinomial logit (MNL) model to explain the working
hour arrangement probability and a MNL selectivity bias corrected hours estimation for
arrangement specific working hours with correct asymptotic covariances. Our study is the first
German study of this kind which could analyse the actual available German Time Use Survey
1991/92 from the Federal Statistical Office with ca. 32.000 time diaries.
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