In Germany, women make up the bulk of workers in marginal employment like minijobs and midijobs - flexitime casual jobs which provide limited levels of social security, income and career options. Evidence from the United Kingdom (Connolly and Gregory, 2010) and Austria shows that part-time work is often poorly paid (at hourly rates) compared to the equivalent full-time employment. And in many European countries part-time employees are significantly more exposed than full-time workers to the risk of poverty, particularly women and those who have no choice but part-time work (Horemans and Marx, 2013). Indeed, the shorter the weekly working hours are, the greater the risk of poverty is.