We use matched employer-employee data to explore the relationship between employees' access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 10%...

Der Beitrag thematisiert Teilergebnisse des Projektes Pflege:Zeit zur Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in der Pflege für die Stärkung organisationaler Resilienz. Ergänzend sind Erkenntnisse aus anderen IAT-Projekten und Diskussionen des Forschungsschwerpunkts "Arbeit und Wandel" eingeflossen. Die...

By building on theoretical work by Mills and Schumann (1985) and Ungern-Sternberg (1990) this paper provides evidence on the determinants of two dimensions of flexibility, the flexibility in adjusting aggregate output over time ("tactical flexibility") as well as the ability to switch quickly...

The recent economic crisis has increased the demand for atypical, flexible work patterns. Czech lawmakers have thus been under a continuous pressure by employers to adopt more liberal labour laws. Any increase of flexibility in labour relations, however, increases the risk of worsening the...

Working at home benefits workers with low fixed costs and the ability to engage in joint market and household production. We evaluate a large-scale reform in Singapore that allows the possibility of business creation at one's residential property and study whether the option of home-based...

Der Beitrag thematisiert Teilergebnisse des Projektes Pflege:Zeit zur Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in der Pflege für die Stärkung organisationaler Resilienz. Ergänzend sind Erkenntnisse aus anderen IAT-Projekten und Diskussionen des Forschungsschwerpunkts "Arbeit und Wandel" eingeflossen. Die...

We use matched employer-employee data to explore the relationship between employees access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 10%...