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...

Klappentext: Die Digitalisierung verändert die Arbeitswelt grundlegend, führt zu neuen Organisationsformen und einer zunehmenden Entgrenzung von Arbeit und privater Sphäre. Dies kann mehr Flexibilität bei der Vereinbarkeit verschiedener Lebensbereiche bedeuten, begünstigt jedoch zugleich...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Flexible Arbeitsarrangements können die Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbsarbeit mit außerberuflichen Tätigkeiten erleichtern. Gleitzeit, völlig selbstbestimmte Arbeitszeiten und Homeoffice können Beschäftigten mehr Autonomie geben und somit die Möglichkeit, ihre Erwerbsarbeit an ihr Familienleben...

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...

Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...

The authors propose an explanation of why Europeans choose to work fewer hours than Americans and also suffer higher rates of unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries reduce, ceteris paribus, the gains from...

This study, funded by the Low Pay Commission, found that the 2018 increase in the Irish minimum wage did lead to some immediate reductions in the hours worked by minimum wage employees but only in particular segments of the economy. The reduced hours were found in the Dublin and West regions and...