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...

Leveraging the first Covid-19 lockdown in Norway as a laboratory for an increase in work flexibility, we uncover a significant and persistent increase in births nine months later. Using the Goldin (2014) measure of work flexibility based on occupation characteristics, we show that fertility...

The fundamental aim of this paper is to assess the consequences - on individual and organizational achievements - of resorting to flexible employment. From the particular example of temp contracts, it is possible to show how resorting to flexible employment is rational and profitable for...

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...

Since at least the 1980s students of organizations speculate on the emergence of a novel organizational form, eventually called adhocracy or network organization, which displays a higher degree of flexibility with respect to traditional bureucracies. However, while empirical investigations point...

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...