Do countries matter, especially compared to other aspects that affect the flexibility behaviours of companies? Many studies on the labour market assume that there are country differences, cross-national variances, and that it is a crucial factor in explaining the actual practices of the labour...

Labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in the reform of labour markets in welfare states. The way in which various countries adapt to this need differs according to their institutions and prevailing strategies. Despite the vast numbers of studies addressing this issue,...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of education, social network and work-life balance on male and female entrepreneurs. The research has three main objectives: (a) to examine the impact of gender education on entrepreneurship, (b) to observe the impact of social networking on...

Employee Engagement has become a hot topic in the world of human resources management.Employee Engagement is a state of emotional and intellectual involvement that employees have in an organization. The private hospitals in India have become the happening industry. The corporate culture has...

In the globalization context, the last decades have changed the national economies, and also affected the time allocation patterns for individuals and for the entire society. As an economic resource, time is perceived very different by people, because of various individuals’ norms and values,...

The importance of research in this area is that modern economies seek new value, while the time incorporates a significant economic value. The interest to investigate time use has increased in recent decades, refocusing research programs of economic science towards a new horizon of knowledge...

The globalization process has many implications in the national economies development, changing the every day life of people. If we take a look on the labour market of last decades it is easy to observe the changes of national time allocation patterns for individuals and also for the entire...

This paper uses 11 years of data from household panel data sets for the Netherlands, Germany and Great-Britain to investigate part-time employment and the role of institutions and preferences on transitions from part-time into full-time employment or into other employment statuses. The...

Using European Union Labour Force Survey data on over 2.5 million workers in Italian regions for the period 1999-2010, we investigate the determinants of involuntary non-standard (temporary and part-time) employment (INE). We find that regional differences significantly affect the probability of...

An analysis of trends over the past decade in earnings, job growth, employment security and working time experienced by UK employees.