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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 version: May 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 …
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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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Monetary rewards, hierarchy level and working hours as drivers of employees' self-evaluations
Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023
industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus payments and wage increases), level of hierarchy and weekly working hours as well … of working hours, and some extent of hierarchy levels and monetary rewards. We find less evidence for our hypotheses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249264
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Implications of CJEU jurisprudence on the delimitation of working time by rest time in the collaborative economy
Anghel, Razvan - 2019
The specificity of the collaborative economy has raised a number of issues with regard to the qualification of legal relationships between workers, final beneficiaries and the online platform that mediates the provision of work, respectively whether between the platform and the worker there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846189
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Cumulative Character of Working Time Features. Consequences on Delimiting Working Time From Rest Time
Anghel, Razvan - 2020
The article presents an analysis of the provisions of Directives 93/104/EC and 2003/88 and of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which supports the conclusion that the characteristic features of working time must be cumulatively met so that a time frame falls within this...
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Identifying the effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
It is recognized that employment policies must grant flexibility to the working schedules to allow parents to reconcile family and work. By exploiting the particularity of the East German labor market, I identify the causal effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281491
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Does work-time flexibility really improve the reconciliation of family and work? : conference paper
Scheffel, Juliane - 2013
Temporal work flexibility is often viewed as means to improve the reconciliation of family and work. By exploiting theGerman re-unification and the particularities of the labor market of the German Democratic Republic, I show that flexitime allows mothers to spend more time with their children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338369
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Identifying the effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
It is recognized that employment policies must grant flexibility to the working schedules to allow parents to reconcile family and work. By exploiting the particularity of the East German labor market, I identify the causal effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125557
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Identifying the Effect of Temporal Work Flexibility on Parental Time with Children
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
It is recognized that employment policies must grant flexibility to the working schedules to allow parents to reconcile family and work. By exploiting the particularity of the East German labor market, I identify the causal effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181900
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Work-sharing for a sustainable economy
Zwickl, Klara; Disslbacher, Franziska; Stagl, Sigrid - 2016
Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present...
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