Rising temperatures due to climate change pose significant challenges to how much and how effectively individuals can work, particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as India, where exposure to extreme heat is becoming more common. While existing research documents adverse effects of...

We demonstrate nearly steady trends from 1973-2023 in the U.S. in the timing of when people work for pay, away from evening and night hours toward "usual" daytime hours. Much of the trend is related to increased real incomes, with rising educational attainment, the changing composition of the...

In December 2024, Spain's government reached an agreement with the country's major trade unions to reduce the standard workweek to 37.5 hours without wage cuts by the end of 2025. This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the proposed reform using EUROLAB, a discrete choice labour supply...

The green and digital transitions are increasingly described as the 'twin transition' in EU policy documents, social partners' strategic plans and academic debates. However, the exact meaning of this term remains ambiguous, and the interconnections between these transitions are largely...

Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt wird in den kommenden Jahren vor großen Herausforderungen stehen, die durch den demografischen Wandel hervorgerufen werden. Die gegenwärtige konjunkturelle Krise und damit einhergehende Schwäche der Arbeitskräftenachfrage ändern nichts an der Tatsache, dass das...