Allowing workers to control their work hours (working-time autonomy) is a controversial policy for worker empowerment, with concerns that range from increased shirking to excessive intensification of work. Empirical evidence, however, supports neither view. Recent studies find that working-time...

This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...

Kritisch werden die Vorstellungen über die Arbeitswelt heute und in der Zukunft hinterfragt und negative Entwicklungen für Arbeitnehmer/-innen aufgezeigt, die in der neuen Arbeitswelt bestehen müssen. (2)