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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Nie, Peng - 2015
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does significantly increase the probabilities of high blood pressure and...
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Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children
Magda, Iga - 2018
amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … status of parents, their socio-economic status and social and cultural norms they share. Our results show that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919504
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The Value of Sick Pay
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2022
Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for employer-provided paid sick pay in many countries. In this paper, we study who has access to...
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Informal Institution Meets Child Development : Clan Culture and Child Labor in China
Tang, Can; Zhao, Zhong - 2022
Using a national representative sample, the China Family Panel Studies, this paper explores the influences of clan culture, a hallmark of Chinese cultural history, on the prevalence of child labor in China. We find that clan culture significantly reduces the incidence of child labor and working...
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Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction – the Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender
Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja - 2021
Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential moderating effect of working time autonomy on this...
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How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings
Raposo, Pedro S.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021
hours to 40 hours. We study how this mandatory working hours reduction affected employment and earnings of workers involved …
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Labour Market Participation and Atypical Employment Over the Life Cycle : A Cohort Analysis for Germany
Bachmann, Ronald - 2019
We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …
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Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan
Kato, Takao - 2014
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … data, we find a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on female employment of this particular piece … employment. Our finding is consistent with the recent literature that points to the importance of paying particular attention to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053530
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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Cahuc, Pierre - 2011
and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131173
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Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
Manoli, Dayanand - 2010
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated discontinuous changes in retirement benefits from the Austrian pension system. We first present...
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