According to the last report (november):
>In the year-over-year comparison full-time employment in jobs subject to social security was 369,000 or 1.6 percent better than last year and part-time employment subject to social security by 325,000 or 6.0 percent.>
http://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Statischer-Content/Arbeitsmarktberichte/Labour-Market-Germany/Gen erische-Publikationen/Labour-Market-Germany-201111.pdf
(page 3)
So half of the improvement is part-time, half isn't.
>Die Zahl der ausschließlich geringfügig entlohnt Beschäftigten hat abgenommen. Nach ersten Hochrechnun-gen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit betrug sie im Oktober 4,85 Mio, das waren 33.000 oder 0,7 Prozent weniger als vor einem Jahr.>
The number of marginally employed was 4,85 mill. in october and declined year on year 33,000.
So it seems the rise of marginally employed, that is employment not reaching the social contributions threshold, ha stopped now.
http://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Statischer-Content/Arbeitsmarktberichte/Monatsbericht-Arbeits-Aus bildungsmarkt-Deutschland/Monatsberichte/Generische-Publikationen/Monatsbericht-201112.pdf
So in the recent past - since 2006 or 2007 or so, at least a part of reduced unemployment was full-time employment.
(The year-on-year calculations are mine)
There was obviously a bump in part-time job creation in mid-decade. But most of the time, fulltime jobs have been on the decrease or flat.
Not in 2009, while part-time jobs gained even then.
So the conventional impression that there a kind of turn around in job numbers starting in 2006 or 2007 is not wrong.
The Rexecode report (confirmed by the OFCE paper) looks at the period 1999-2010, on the basis of the Labour Force Survey.
I've just checked the numbers from the German LFS at Eurostat. They are:
This confirms the observation that fulltime jobs in Germany have decreased while part-time work has greatly increased, accounting for all the rise in total employment since 1999.
Most of the part-time jobs have gone, as we might expect, to women - +2.164 mn over the period, compared to +872 600 for men.
Said I something else?
To make my point somewhat better LFS on full-time:
2006 Q3: 27.653,5
2011 Q3: 29.154,6
part-time:
2006 Q3: 9.231,9
2011 Q3: 10.069,8
That is a gain of 1.4 mill full-time and 800,000 part-time jobs. I used the third quarter because these are the latest numbers.
