Das Thema familienfreundliche Arbeitswelt genießt aus Sicht der befragten Unternehmen in den sechs ausgewählten europäischen Ländern einen hohen Stellenwert. Der Europäische Unternehmensmonitor Familienfreundlichkeit zeigt, dass ein umfangreiches Angebot an familienfreundlichen...

Based on German individual-level panel data, this paper empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on employee effort. Theoretically, workers may respond positively or negatively to having control over their own working hours, depending on whether SMWT increases work...

This paper investigates work effort using novel air pressure data from compressed air machinery which moved directly with effort in a large manufacturing plant. Work effort is found to vary by shift, and standard shift differentials do not fully compensate for the disutility of non-standard...

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of inno¬va¬tive new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” la¬bor markets enhances...

Whereas preferences of consumers are a cornerstone of market economies, preferences of employees e.g. regarding the preferred amount of paid labour are mostly not. However, we find strong evidence that differences between aspired and actually worked weekly hours have a serious negative impact on...

Working time autonomy is often accompanied by output-based incentives to counterbalance the loss of monitoring that comes with granting autonomy. However, in such settings, overprovision of effort could arise if workers are uncertain whether their performance suffices to secure the output-based...