Economists often compare two ways of work sharing: increase of part-time
work and the reduction of the weekly work time. Most of the literature
focuses upon the labour demand size. The aim of this paper is to tackle this
question from the point of view of labour supply. We calibrate on French
data a sequential job search model, which as two specific features: the
characterization of job offers in terms of utility level which combines
hourly wage rates with available leisure time and the fact that unemployment
is not the only compatible state with a job search. Simulations of the model
show that, for a given labour demand, the probability to be unemployed
increases with the proportion of part-time jobs and decrease with the
reduction of the weekly work time.