TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The mismatch between desired and actual hours of work per week is common among the employed in many countries and has important effects on the adequate functioning of labour markets. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the likelihood of being underemployed, matched or overemployed in terms of hours worked for workers without and with disabilities in Germany by using longitudinal data.Design/methodology/approach Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1985-2013) for a large sample of salaried workers aged 16-64. The authors have used a “Random-effects ordered probit model” to estimate the impact of being disabled on the likelihood of suffering any type of working time mismatch. Additionally, the authors have estimated a “Tobit Random-effects model” on the number of hours of underemployment and overemployment.Findings Females with disabilities are more likely to be overemployed than females without disabilities. In addition, only females with disabilities experience a lower number of hours of underemployment than females without disabilities. As for overemployment, both males and females with disabilities are more likely to report a higher number of hours of overemployment as compared to their non-disabled counterparts.Originality/value This paper therefore shows the importance of combating and reducing the hours of overemployment for all workers in general and for males and females with disabilities in particular. A large longitudinal data set has been used in the paper and it is the first attempt to estimate the determinants of being underemployed, matched and overemployed for workers without and with disabilities.
VL  - 40
IS  - 3
SN  - 0142-5455
DO  - 10.1108/ER-03-2017-0064
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-03-2017-0064
AU  - Pagan Ricardo
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Are workers with disabilities more likely to be constrained in their working hours?
T2  - Employee Relations
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 529
EP  - 548
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -