What causes individuals' hours of work to climb, recede, or shift in timing? The main purpose of this article is to broaden the labor supply function to include determinants other than the conventional list of wage rate, nonwage income and preferences. Then it peers further into the black box of...

This research explores the relationship between three different dimensions of work hours with individuals’ reported level of happiness — its duration, mismatch with preferences and flexibility over its timing. Using pooled data from the US General Social Survey (1972-2012) and two of its...

Work hours and scheduling matter for the well-being of those employed throughout the state in Illinois, perhaps now more than ever. Before Chicago implemented the Fair Workweek ordinance (FWW) in July 2020, we issued a large-scale, geographically, and demographically representative survey of...

Contrary to the neoclassical theory of labor supply, it is argued here that the supply of labor is best modelled as a function of target market income and target non-market time which are, in turn, structured by an individual's hierarchy of needs. Thus, increasing wage rates need never result in...

A model is developed to predict the effects of recently proposed amendments to the FLSA workweek and overtime provisions. It contrasts allowing compensatory time for overtime pay for private non-exempt employees to “rights to request” reduced hours. It finds that hours demanded are likely to...