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fractions of work are performed at night and on weekends. -- Labor demand ; time use ; wage penalty …
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This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …
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We analyse the role of health in determining the difference between desired and actual hours of work in a sample of German men using the Socio-Economic Panel Data for years 1996-2007. The effects of both self-assessed health and legal disability status are examined. About 60% of employees report...
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Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a … with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no … difference at all between plants which increased standard hours and those which did not. -- working time ; employment ; plant …
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traditional government-sponsored short-time work. -- unemployment ; Germany ; Great Recession ; short time work ; working time …Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment … percent may be explained by wage moderation. A third important element was the widespread adoption of working time accounts …
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can either be paid or unpaid. This research considers overtime working in Germany and the UK and shows that the …
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Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the … effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct … increase couples' work time coordination. There is less evidence that broader control over working hours increases daily …
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Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time … nature of the data, enable person-specific traits that are time invariant to be controlled for. The incorporation of dynamics …
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on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time … countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …
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In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries … dynamic labor demand function for the years 2000-2009 accounting for the degree of working time flexibility and the presence … hoarding, we also look at the determinants of subsidized labor hoarding through short-time work. The structural characteristics …
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