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Does how you get paid at work affect your time off work? : the relationship between performance-related employment contracts and leisure activities
Andelic, Nicole; Allan, Julia L.; Bender, Keith A.; … - 2024
Recent research highlights the association of performance-related pay (PRP) and poor health. An uninvestigated … potential mechanism is a lower frequency of leisure activities, since PRP incentives longer work hours. This study investigates … PRP's effect on a variety of leisure pursuits. After correcting for self-selection, UK data show that PRP workers are less …
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
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Job satisfaction and work-life balance: differences between homework and work at the workplace of the company
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664389
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Work schedules
DeVaro, Jed - 2024
In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises;...
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Work-life balance practices and the gender gap in job satisfaction in the UK : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the paradox of the contented female worker". After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost...
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …
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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … leisure impact participation and hours worked. For men, taxes influence labor supply both at the intensive and the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309018
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Can US coordination failure explain why Americans work so much more than Europeans?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2014
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and …
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