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...

Eine Flexibilisierung des Rentenübergangs kann unter Umständen zu einer höheren Beschäftigung und zu weiteren Vorteilen sowohl auf individueller als auch auf Firmenebene führen. Bei der Gestaltung eines graduellen Rentenübergangs für Personen unterhalb der Regelaltersgrenze ist vor allem...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011), the author scrutinizes the relations between womenś and menś flexibility and autonomy in working time and two central work outcomes: overtime and income. Previously, research on flexibility and...

Gute Arbeit ist nicht denkbar ohne gute Arbeitszeiten. Das gilt erst recht mit Blick auf die Digitalisierung, denn sie fördert den Trend der völligen Entgrenzung und Flexibilisierung von Arbeitszeiten und verstärkt Ansprüche der Arbeitgeber auf schrankenlose Verfügbarkeit der Ware...

Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" - would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut exogenously because employers suddenly faced an overtime...

The study examines the diffusion rate and the intensity of on-call or work on demand in Germany. In 2009, German companies with at least 150 employees have relied on about 60% on-call and almost 12% work on demand. On-call is particularly widespread in the utilities sectors (energy and water),...

An der Akademie-Studie zum Thema "Arbeitszeit ist Lebenszeit" haben über 1000 deutsche Fach- und Führungskräfte teilgenommen. Im Rahmen der Studie haben wir unter anderem untersucht, wie sich hierzulande die Arbeitstage gestalten, welche Aufgaben besonders zeitraubend sind und wie es um das...

This study examines the effect of working time flexibility and autonomy on time adequacy using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) in 2010. Drawing on gender theory and welfare state theory, gender differences and the institu-tional contexts of the UK, Sweden, Germany and the...

To be able to combine work with activities and duties outside the workplace successfully, employees need time adequacy. Time adequacy is the fit between working time and all other time demands and can be achieved through working time flexibility and autonomy. However, past research has shown...

Demographic change will have severe impacts on transport, logistics and traffic corporations and systems in Germany and Europe. The most important professional groupings therein are the different driver professions from road, rail and water to the air transport sector. Therefore this research...