We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...

Die vorliegende Studie ist der Frage gewidmet, wie sich verschiedene demografische, sozioökonomische und persönliche Faktoren auf die Diskrepanz zwischen der tatsächlichen und der gewünschten wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit eines Individuums auswirken. Die Untersuchung von Arbeitszeitdiskrepanzen...

Die vorliegende Study geht der Frage nach, inwiefern Arbeitszeitkonten die Zeitautonomie von Beschäftigten erhöhen. Anhand des Ländervergleichs werden Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in Deutschland und Frankreich mit Blick auf Zeitautonomie herausgearbeitet. Basis der Untersuchung sind 587...

Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from work to care for a family member with a serious health condition, with reduced financial risk and increased job continuity. In 2004, California was the first state in the nation to implement a paid family leave program allowing workers to...

Using unique data from a Japanese survey, this paper examines whether flexible work arrangements targeted specifically at workers with caregiving responsibilities under the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act help family caregivers reconcile paid work with care provision. The regression results...

A new research stream emerged in the 2000s dedicated to flexible work arrangements in public and private organizations, called "new ways of working" (NWW). This article aims to examine NWW from both a theoretical and empirical perspective, focusing on definitional issues as well as on HR...

Alternative work arrangements, defined both by working conditions and by workers' relationship to their employers, are heterogeneous and common in the U.S. This article reviews the literature on workers' preferences over these arrangements, inputs to firms' decision to offer them, and the impact...

Purpose: Employers and governments on the African continent were forced to implement flexible work arrangements (FWAs) to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) without adequate preparations. This study investigated employees' perceptions of FWAs adopted by employers in selected African...

In the past years, work time in many industries has become increasingly flexible opening up a new channel for intertemporal substitution. To study this, we set up a two-period model with wage uncertainty. This extends the standard savings model by allowing a worker to allocate a fixed time...

In the past years, work time in many industries has become increasingly flexible opening up a new channel for intertemporal substitution. To study this, we set up a two-period model with wage uncertainty. This extends the standard saving model by allowing a worker to allocate a fixed time budget...

We conducted a discrete choice experiment to elicit revealed preferences of low-income women for job flexibility. We did so without deception reversing the methodology proposed by Kessler et al. (2019) for job seekers. We contrast the role of flexible time schedule with that of part-time...

Welche Herausforderungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten bestehen bei Systemen zur Arbeitszeiterfassung und ihrer Einbettung in der betrieblichen Praxis? Wo gibt es juristische und datenschutzrechtliche Schwachstellen? Diese Fragen stellen sich gerade bei mobiler Arbeit - und nach dem Urteil des...

Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...

Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...

Die psychische Gesundheit der Beschäftigten gilt als ein entscheidender Faktor für den Unternehmenserfolg. Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitsbeziehungen können dabei als Ressourcen oder als Stressoren wirken. Doch gerade diese verändern sich im Kontext moderner Arbeitsformen. Mobile und flexible...

In the context of growing worldwide inequality, it is important to know what happens when the demand for low-skilled workers changes. Because natural resource shocks are global in nature, but have highly localized impacts on labor prospects in resource extraction areas, they offer a unique...

Reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits is considered by many as a policy that will discourage labor supply by mature workers. This paper analyzes a recent Norwegian pension reform which effectively lowered the eligibility age of retirement from 67 to 62 for a group of workers. For the...

Von Arbeitszeiterfassung über Einsatzplanung zur Stresshaftung. Arbeitszeitfragen sind nicht erst seit der Corona-​Pandemie und nicht nur rechtspolitisch von grosser Aktualität: politische Vorstösse im Parlament verlangen fundamentale Änderungen der Arbeitszeit-​ und...

Das IAB wurde im Rahmen der Beratung des Sozialausschusses des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtags, zusammen mit dem Wirtschafts- und Finanzausschuss, um seine schriftliche Stellungnahme zu zwei Anträgen gebeten ("Home-Office steuerlich berücksichtigen" - Antrag der Abgeordneten des SSWund...

Does removing the constraints of time and place of work increase the utility of workers and firms? We design a randomized experiment on a sample of workers in a large Italian company: workers are randomly divided into a treated group that engages in flexible space and time job (which we call...

Working from home (WfH) has become much more common since the early 2000s. We exploit the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1997 and 2014 to investigate how such a work arrangement affects labour market outcomes and life satisfaction. We find that childless employees work an extra hour per...

The world of work is in constant change. Demographic shifts, technological innovation, institutional reforms and global economic integration affect the way people work. Technological innovations have a major impact on occupations and industries, changing the ways economies in different world...

We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...

Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms to smooth their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce layoffs and inhibit increases in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show...