In principle, two different types of working-time instruments were used to introduce working-time changes during the crisis. First, work-sharing schemes (with their country-specific institutional background and public subsidies); second, working-time adjustments based on unilateral or bilateral...

The transition to retirement involves various disruptions, notably use of time and temporal perceptions. First, a qualitative study explores links between temporal perceptions and subjective experiences of retirement. Then, a quantitative study tests the influence of individual time perception...

A large number of our daily activities are routinized in the sense that they are done without explicit deliberation. We provide a first model that captures this phenomenon. In a dynamic setting routines arise endogenously from the necessity to economize on time and attention. Routines are shown...

Based on data from 109 agreements, mainly in the engineering industry, discusses the trend to arrange flexible working schedules at plant level and the potential impact of these agreements on employment security and job creation.

Alors que la cessation d’activité professionnelle induit certaines ruptures notamment dans la gestion et la perception individuelle du temps, une étude qualitative explore les liens entre l’évolution de la perception temporelle des individus et l’expérience personnelle de la retraite....