Standard hours, a major component of total work hours, vary considerably across Europe. Many countries lowered their standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker-hours among more workers. Germany has seen a partial...

Die beschäftigungspolitischen Wirkungen einer Arbeitszeitverkürzung sind in der Fachliteratur intensiv diskutiert worden. Allerdings bleibt die theoretische Frage offen, ob eine Arbeitszeitverkürzung eine Steigerung der mit positiven Externalitäten verbundenen Frauenerwerbsbeteiligung mit...

We conducted a discrete choice experiment to elicit revealed preferences of low-income women for job flexibility. We did so without deception reversing the methodology proposed by Kessler et al. (2019) for job seekers. We contrast the role of flexible time schedule with that of part-time...