In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry-level data in European countries to study the economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the five national reforms that took place over this period and on initial...

We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in a growth model with efficiency wages and an essential natural resource (natural capital). Considering that technical progress cannot reduce the resource content of final production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR...

Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices - parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home - and a substantially lower rate of individual-level...

We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in an exogenous growth model with unemployment (due to efficiency wage considerations) and a renewable natural resource. The resource is an essential input whose marginal productivity is bounded by physical laws. In the...

In a highly globalised world where all production and consumption activities are internationally intertwined and the environmental consequences of those actions are hard to identify, rethinking the role of work in our societies according to sustainability principles is a complex but highly...

Average weekly working hours in most industrialized economies have displayed steady declines since the 1970s. Changes in working hours may have two contrasting effects on hourly productivity: a "fatigue effect" and a "learning effect." An increase in working hours may lead to the accumulation of...

During the Great Depression of 1930s, changes in the workweek drove a larger portion of changes in total labor input than in other decades. Work-sharing policies appear to be responsible. Hoover created various work-sharing committees lead by key industrialists, which pushed for shorter...

Dieses essential vermittelt in kompakter Form, worauf es ankommt, um agiles Arbeiten durch den Büroraum effektiv zu unterstützen. Skizziert werden umsetzbare Ansätze und wirksame Instrumente einer zukunftsorientierten Gestaltung der Arbeitswelt. Für die konkrete Umsetzung innovativer...

Dieses essential vermittelt in kompakter Form, worauf es ankommt, um agiles Arbeiten durch den Büroraum effektiv zu unterstützen. Skizziert werden umsetzbare Ansätze und wirksame Instrumente einer zukunftsorientierten Gestaltung der Arbeitswelt. Für die konkrete Umsetzung innovativer...

Mit Topsharing können Unternehmen den Rekrutierungspool erweitern, Führungskräfte entlasten, den Frauenanteil im Management erhöhen und so dem drohenden Führungskräftemangel entgegenwirken. Die von Esther Himmen in Deutschland erstmalig quantitativ durchgeführte, theoriebasierte Studie...

The "natural" in the natural rate of unemployment is a misnomer, insofar as unemployment does not occur in nature. The concept is especially misleading because many economists and media commentators inappropriately equate it with "full" employment. As a consequence, endemic un- and...

During the Great Depression of 1930s, changes in the workweek drove a larger portion of changes in total labor input than in other decades. Work-sharing policies appear to be responsible. Hoover created various work-sharing committees lead by key industrialists, which pushed for shorter...

Die Integration von Geflüchteten als gesamtgesellschaftliche Herausforderung -- Die betriebliche Integration von Geflüchteten -- CSR - Implikationen für den unternehmerischen Integrationsbeitrag -- DiM als Schnittstellenkonzept zwischen CSR und HRM -- Chancen, Risiken und CSR-Potenziale des...

Bei der Bearbeitung von ad-hoc Tätigkeiten am kollaborativen Arbeitsplatz ist häufig der Zugriff auf eine größere Anzahl von Dokumenten notwendig, die verteilt über verschiedene Repositories vorliegen. Bei der Aktivitäts-zentrischen Organisation und Strukturierung dieser Dokumente wird der...

Work Sharing seems to be the “in” thing. According to its advocates, unemployment is caused by people working too many hours; if they would just reduce their workweek to, say 32 hours, there would be plenty of jobs to go around for everyone. The latest politician to make this proposal is Bob...

Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country...

Italy’s 2008 Article IV Consultation describes the country's economic developments and policies. Output has been projected to contract by about ½ percent in 2008 and 1 percent in 2009, with risks tilted to the downside, linked to a further slowing of global growth and falling consumer...

In this paper we estimate the employment effects of a reduction in weekly normal hours in West German manufacturing on the basis of an econometric models using industry panel data. We distinguish between unskilled, skilled and high-skilled workers and show that labor demand elasticities with...

This volume presents the concept and history of work sharing, how it can be used as a strategy for preserving jobs and also its potential for increasing employment - including the complexities and trade-offs involved. Work-sharing programmes used during the Great Recession of 2008-09 are...

Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices - parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home - and a substantially lower rate of individual-level...