Dauer geringfügiger Beschäftigungen (Duration of “marginal“ part-time jobs)

Abstract

"On the basis of both labour market policy and social policy considerations, the development and composition of the group of 'marginal' part-time workers is discussed again and again. Not only the volume of these employment relationships is important for assessing the relevance of marginal part-time employment, but also their particular duration. After summarising the results of available studies on the number of marginal part-time workers this report therefore uses the data of the socio-economic panel to examine the distribution of duration as well as the question as to whether there are group differences here. It was revealed that people with marginal second jobs and those responsible for managing a household constitute the two largest groups, followed by school pupils and students, unemployed people and finally retired people as the smallest group. In particular the group of married women and women with children under the age of 16 stands out due to significantly longer spells of employment in marginal part-time jobs. In addition to this it became clear that there is a need for research into employment prospects following marginal part-time work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))geringfügige Beschäftigung - Dauer, soziale Gruppe, geringfügige Beschäftigung - Determinanten