Die beschäftigungspolitischen Wirkungen einer Arbeitszeitverkürzung sind in der Fachliteratur intensiv diskutiert worden. Allerdings bleibt die theoretische Frage offen, ob eine Arbeitszeitverkürzung eine Steigerung der mit positiven Externalitäten verbundenen Frauenerwerbsbeteiligung mit...

Using Current Population Survey data, I demonstrate a 15-percentage point wage disadvantage among academics compared to all other doctorate-holders with the same demographics. Time-diary data show that academics' workhours are distributed more evenly over the week and day, although their total...

Modern working societies face the challenge to combine the establishments' with the employees' needs for working-time flexibility. The authors investigate the determinants of overtime and different working hours' arrangements using the German Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic...

Working time account is an organization tool that allows firms smoothing their demand for hours employed. Descriptive literature suggests that working time accounts reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during recessions. In a model of optimal choice of hours by a firm I show that...

Als Arbeit auf Abruf werden Beschäftigungsverhältnisse bezeichnet, bei denen Arbeitnehmer zwar eine festgelegte Dauer der Arbeitszeit haben, zeitlich jedoch nach Bedarf eingesetzt werden können. Noch ist wenig über die Verbreitung von Arbeit auf Abruf bekannt. Es wäre indes voreilig, hier...

Die Erwerbsbeteiligung sowie die Arbeitszeitwünsche von Frauen schwanken stark je nach dem, ob ein Partner oder Kind(er) im Haushalt leben. Bei Männern spielt die Haushaltskonstellation dagegen kaum eine Rolle. Um besser abschätzen zu können, ob es bei der Erwerbstätigkeit von Müttern...

Working time arrangements are key elements of working conditions and determine the possibilities for employees to balance work with their other life spheres. Therefore, this paper examines the level of working time satisfaction of employees and identifies the factors that may facilitate or...

Arbeitszeitflexibilität ist ein wichtiges Merkmal attraktiver Arbeitgeber – besonders für die junge Generation, für die Arbeit und Freizeit nicht zwangsläufig räumlich und zeitlich strikt getrennte Lebensbereiche sind. Vielerorts würden die betrieblichen Sozialpartner sowie Beschäftigte...

Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present...

Collectively agreed reductions of working hours phased out in Europe in the 1990s. During the last two decades, working time became more flexible and heterogeneous. Working hours of full-time employees in the EU hardly changed. The strong increase in part-time work was the outstanding...

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...

This paper provides evidence on the effect of employee representation on working time flexibility in private-sector European establishments. A 2002 European Union directive granted information, consultation and representation rights to employees on a range of key business, employment and work...

We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...

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...

The staff scheduling problem in the retail business is considered for which a new mathematical model and new solution methods are introduced. The problem is formalized as a set covering type problem. Columns represent feasible weekly working time patterns of one sales clerk. Rows correspond to...

Introduction / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- Transitions over the lifecycle. Women working longer: facts and some explanations / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The return to work and women's employment decisions / Nicole Maestas -- Understanding why black women are not working...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of figures and tables -- 1 Job quality in an era of flexibility: introduction -- 2 Job quality in Europe -- 3 Deregulation, job security and employability during the Great Recession: a...