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related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential … working time autonomy to employees' job satisfaction. Second, our results show a positive moderating relation of working time … autonomy on the link between mismatch and job satisfaction. Third, our analyses hint at gender-specific differences …
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were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans over a period when hours of work were cut …. Using repeated cross sections we show that life satisfaction in both countries may have increased relatively among those …
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Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...
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In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched...
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Despite the ongoing public debate about precarious working conditions in academia, there is only little evidence on working hours and overtime work for the group of (non-tenured) junior academics. By using unique longitudinal survey data on the occupational situation and careers of doctoral...
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In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry-level data in European countries to study the economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the five national reforms that took place over this period and on initial...
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), namely flexi-time, telehomework, and part-time work, on employees' satisfaction with the fit between working time and private … life and their overall job satisfaction. TLF arrangements provide employees with more control over their working life and … results show that TLF arrangements, flexi-time in particular, are generally associated with sizeable increases in satisfaction …
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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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In the U.S. the relationship between hours worked and employee earnings has been reversed. Whereas the highest earners used to work the shortest hours, now they work the longest hours. This study examines whether such a reversal has occurred elsewhere, namely, Japan. Since the early 1990s the...
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In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that arises due to which country hosts the World Cup, as this will determine the time games are broadcast...
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