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On the Determinants of Employer Demand for Part-Time Workers

Mark Montgomery

The Review of Economics and Statistics 1988

This paper uses a survey of private establishments to examine the determinants of the firm's relative demand for partand full-time workers. The elasticity of substitution of part-time for full-time workers is about 1.5, considerably lower than previous estimates with aggregate data. The results indicate that the quasi-fixed labor costs have a negative impact on the proportion of part-timers in a firm's work force.

DOI
10.2307/1928156
Volume
70 (1)
Pages
112
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