Does temporal and locational flexibility of work increase the labour supply of part-timers?

In recent years many employees have gained more control over temporal
and locational aspects of their work via a variety of flexible work
arrangements, such as flexi-time and telehomework. This temporal and
locational flexibility of work (TLF) is often seen as a means to combine work
and private life and as such has been recommended as a policy to increase
the labour supply part-time workers. To the best of our knowledge it has
not been tested empirically yet, however, whether the presumed link
between this type of worker-oriented flexibility and increasing working
hours actually holds. We therefore analyse whether flexi-time and
telehomework arrangements increase the number of actual, contracted and
preferred working hours. Based on Dutch household panel data, our results
indicate that the impact of TLF on working hours is quite limited.
Telehomework is associated with moderate increases in actual hours, but
not in contracted or preferred hours. Flexi-time generally seems to have an
ambiguous effect on working hours. Despite positive effects of TLF on job
satisfaction and working time fit, it does not seem to lead to an increase in
labour supply.