Steadily increasing demand for personnel has led health care providers to seek more efficient uses of the healthcare workforce. One potential solution is to find ways of organizing work schedules that are more attractive and sustainable for workers. The primary objective of this article is to...

Shift work is a widespread but understudied phenomenon. This paper examines one specific aspect of shift work: the shift premium. To this end, we included a discrete choice experiment in an online survey targeted at night and shift workers. Respondents chose between a standard 9 am - 5 pm job...

Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...

The Indian women, today have ventured beyond the traditional roles of wife and mother and have sought employment and career outside their homes, and are actively participating in the economic and social development of the nation (Liddle& Joshi, 1986). Economic, social and political development...

An employee’s work hours arrangements can have a significant impact on how they experience their job, how well, and how safely, they perform at work, and on their health. Working shifts can affect not just an employee’s sleep, but many other aspects of their psychological and physiological...

The "new economy" is characterized by increasing levels of nonstandard employment. A significant proportion of employees work very long hours, work with high intensity, or have long commutes to work. Also, many workers struggle to secure adequate, stable employment or good quality jobs, and work...

Many children live in households where either one or both parents work nonstandard schedules in the evening, night or weekend. Using a mixed methods design, this study examined whether nonstandard work schedules were linked to lower social and emotional wellbeing in children. The quantitative...

In December 2017, Congress passed major tax reform. The reform included an important new provision that grants independent contractors and other passthrough taxpayers, but not employees or corporations, a potential tax deduction equal to 20% of their qualified business income. Critics have...

Schichtarbeit ist noch immer ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen in Deutschland. Der Anteil an betroffenen Beschäftigten stagniert auf hohem Niveau. Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit sind zwei Beobachtungen hinsichtlich dieser besonderen Arbeitszeitform: Einerseits sind die negativen Auswirkungen und...

Das Working Paper beschreibt Vorgehensweisen für die Erstellung von Gefährdungsbeurteilungen in der Produktion und betrieblich erfolgreiche Umsetzungsstrategien sowie Defizite in der Gestaltung von Schichtarbeit. Sekundäranalytischen Auswertungen der BiBB-BAuA-Erwerbstätigenbefragung 2012...

Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich mit physiologischen Belastungen von Personen, die aufgrund ökonomischer Gesichtspunkte ihre Tätigkeit nach dem Prinzip des Akkordlohnes ausüben. Dabei ist zu berücksichtigen, dass dieser Entlohnungsgrundsatz einen besonderen Aspekt der Belastung...

Work schedules play an important role in utilizing labor in organizations. In this study of emergency department physicians in shift work, schedules induce two distortions: First, physicians "slack off" by accepting fewer patients near end of shift (EOS). Second, physicians distort patient care,...

Work schedules play an important role in utilizing labor in organizations. In this study of emergency department physicians in shift work, schedules induce two distortions: First, physicians "slack off" by accepting fewer patients near end of shift (EOS). Second, physicians distort patient care,...

Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich mit physiologischen Belastungen von Personen, die aufgrund ökonomischer Gesichtspunkte ihre Tätigkeit nach dem Prinzip des Akkordlohnes ausüben. Dabei ist zu berücksichtigen, dass dieser Entlohnungsgrundsatz einen besonderen Aspekt der Belastung...

Many studies report diseases caused by shift and night work. As a rule, however, such studies do not take into account socio-demographic factors and job characteristics. Based on the BIBB/BAuA Employment Survey 2006, the present paper looks into the effects of various job-specific and...

I. Hintergründe -- II. Sind Nacht- und Schichtarbeit wirklich schädlich? Kritische Bewertung der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnislage -- III. Gibt es gute und schlechte Schichtpläne? Kritische Bewertung der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnislage -- IV. Jahrzehntelange Forschung ohne...