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Does labor legislation benefit workers? : well-being after an hours reduction

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin - 2014

reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness. …

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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness …

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Painful Hours? The Potential Costs of Extra Work Hours and Schedule Inflexibility to Workers’ Physical Well-Being

Golden, Lonnie; Wiens-Tuers, Barbara - 2011

One of the costs organizations may incur is those associated with controlling employees’ work hours and schedules. This chapter examines the empirical association between long work hours, ability to control their work timing and their self reported experience of adverse physical health. One...

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Reducing hours of work : does overtime act as a brake upon unemployment growth? : an analysis by gender for the case of Italy

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Braschi, Cristina - 2002

In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of the wider issue of the reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming at reducing working hours, and increases in overtime work neutralising their beneficial effects on employment,...

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The gender-specific effect of working hours on family happiness in South Korea

Rudolf, Robert; Cho, Seo-young - 2011

2008 to analyze the relationship between working hours and family happiness in Korea. The Korean labor market is …. Our findings indicate that past working hours reductions increased family happiness in Korea. However, there are still … strong gender-specific effects how working hours affect family happiness. Controlling for household income, wives report …

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Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing

Bryan, Mark L.; Nandi, Alita - 2015

Following theories of social and economic identity, we use representative data containing measures of personal identity to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction, job-related anxiety and depression, and life...

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Helping with the kids? : how family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior

Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016

Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work-life conflict. The focus is on how a specific workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the...

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Helping with the kids? : how family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior

Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016

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Does telework stress employees out? : a study on working at home and subjective well-being for wage/salary workers

Song, Younghwan; Gao, Jia - 2018

weekends/holidays. In contrast, bringing work home on weekdays results in a lower level of net affect due to less happiness …

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Happy Analysts

Hope, Ole-Kristian - 2020

This paper is the first to investigate the role of work-life balance in financial analysts' performance and career advancement. Using a large sample of Glassdoor reviews by financial analysts, we find a significant non-linear relation between perceived work-life balance and analyst performance...

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