Economic, political, and demographic changes, technological advances, two crashes of the economy, ethical scandals, and other developments in the business environment have strained the roles and enrollments of American universities' business schools. The b-schools have not responded adequately....

Economic, political, and demographic changes, technological advances, two crashes of the economy, ethical scandals, and other developments in the business environment have strained the roles and enrollments of American universities' business schools. The b-schools have not responded adequately....

Does paid employment during high school and college displace the time students spend in educational activities? Most enrolled college students in the United States (US) now work in paid jobs, almost half of whom work 25 or more hours per week (US Department of Education 2010). An economics-based...

This research synthesis paper attempts to summarize the various effects of working time, in its multiple dimensions, described in the research literature in the past years. It covers the available empirical evidence regarding the effects of both hours of work and flexible types of working time...

This chapter has demonstrated the potential power of institutionalizing work sharing, whether temporary or permanent, to protect employment levels in recessions or perhaps feed employment growth during recoveries. From the empirical analyses and simulations generated herein, using a four...

The standard to apply to any proposal to reform the FLSA overtime law is the extent to which it remains true to the original intent of the FLSA. That is, does it sufficiently: 1) deter employer demand for excessive work hours; 2) reward extended work effort; and 3) encourage the spreading of job...

The intensity of use of overtime hours has risen markedly since the early 1990s. Recent research suggests that there has been a structural break in manufacturing productivity beginning in the 1990s in the US. This paper investigates how a given increase or decrease in hours - measured here as...

We study how working schedule flexibility (flextime) affects happiness. We use a US General Social Survey (GSS) pooled dataset containing the Quality of Worklife and Work Orientations modules for 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. We retain only respondents who are either full-time or part-time...