title: Women's transitions in the labour market: a competing risks analysis on German panel data.
abstract: "This paper analyses the transitions between the three states of non-employment, part-time and full-time work of a sample of married women living in West Germany....A non-parametric duration analysis shows that women have a similar attachment to full-time and part-time work in terms of survival, and that survival in non-employment is shorter than in the other two states. Estimates of a parametric discrete-time competing risks duration model show that wives of retired husbands go into full-time work, children under 3 years have a disincentive effect on part-time work and that part-time work is a state that German women prefer to stay in and not a first step to full-time employment, whereas foreign women living in West Germany prefer full-time jobs."
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Giannelli
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005060:Europe; D005860:Germany, West; D006280:Health Workforce; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014478:Unemployment
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Employment; Employment Status--determinants; Europe; Germany, Federal Republic Of; Human Resources; Labor Force--women; Macroeconomic Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Time Factors; Unemployment--determinants; Western Europe