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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600766
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"How Many Hours Would you Want to Work a Week?": Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models
Steiber, Nadia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017463
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Arbeitszeitrealitäten und Arbeitszeitwünsche in Deutschland: Methodische Unterschiede ihrer Erfassung im SOEP und Mikrozensus
Holst, Elke; Bringmann, Julia - 2016
Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit erneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensus oder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihren Ergebnissen aufweisen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531199
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep: Evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335340
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Potenziale unfreiwilliger Teilzeit in Deutschland
Tobsch, Verena; Holst, Elke - 2019
' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor … to 2014, this study focusses on 1) preferences for longer working hours of part-time workers; 2) preferences for shorter … for not being able to realize individual working time preferences and present socio-demographic characteristics of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009512
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The causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany: An overview
Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962202
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Impact of working hours on work-life balance
Holly, Sarah; Mohnen, Alwine - 2012
To examine the influence of working hours on employees' satisfaction, this article uses a large, representative set of panel data from German households (GSOEP). The results show that high working hours and overtime in general do not lead to decreased satisfaction. Rather, increasing working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287576
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Impact of Working Hours on Work-Life Balance
Holly, Sarah; Mohnen, Alwine - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
To examine the influence of working hours on employees' satisfaction, this article uses a large, representative set of panel data from German households (GSOEP). The results show that high working hours and overtime in general do not lead to decreased satisfaction. Rather, increasing working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185777
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Reciprocity and Workers' Tastes for Representation
Jirjahn, Uwe; Lange, Vanessa - 2011
Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601044
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The role of works councils for severance payments
Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2017
Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665812