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@article{ Miežienė2021, title = {Identifying the Main Determinants of Part-Time Employment in EU Countries}, author = {Miežienė, Rasa and Krutulienė, Sandra and Gruževskis, Boguslavas}, journal = {Review of Economic Perspectives}, number = {2}, pages = {151-171}, volume = {21}, year = {2021}, issn = {1804-1663}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2021-0007}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-83049-9}, abstract = {The article analyses the prevalence of part-time employment in different EU countries with a focus on the factors affecting the rate of part-time employment across the EU. Based on the literature review, a distinction is made between three groups of factors that are relevant for the rate of part-time employment, in particular, cyclical factors, political and institutional factors, and structural factors. The article analyses how these factors influence part-time employment rates in EU countries. The linear regression analysis based on EU-28 macroeconomic data for the period of 2007-2018 has shown that all three groups of determinants (i.e. cyclical, political and institutional as well as structural factors) affect the rate of part-time employment in the EU-28. Part-time employment is a complex phenomenon which depends on a number of factors. However, the regression analysis has found that the following political and institutional as well as structural independent variables are also significant predictors of part-time employment rates in EU Member States (EU-28): average annual wages, the tax rate on low wage earners, expenditures on children and family benefits as a percentage of gross domestic product, trade union density, and the activity rate of people aged 15-24 and 55-64. Cyclical factors (the unemployment rate in Model (1) and real GDP per capita in Model (2)) have also been found to have a significant effect on part-time employment in EU-28 countries.}, keywords = {EU; EU; EU-Staat; EU member state; Teilzeitarbeit; part-time work; Teilzeitarbeitnehmer; part-time worker; Konjunkturzyklus; business cycle; politische Faktoren; political factors; institutionelle Faktoren; institutional factors}}