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Extreme working hours in Western Europe and North America : a new aspect of polarization

Burger, Anna S. - 2015

This paper analyzes the trends and root causes of extreme working hours in sixteen Western European countries, Canada, and the United States between 1970 and 2010. Earlier literature has revealed increasing trends in extreme working hours in the United States and recognized the negative...

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Are working hours a new driver of inequality? : on the relation between hours inequality, earnings inequality, and collective bargaining in Germany

Gerold, Stefanie; Stein, Ulrike - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between inequalities in working hours and overall earnings inequality in Germany …

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Climbing up ladders and sliding down snakes : an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing

Dolan, Paul; Lordan, Grace - 2019

We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is...

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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level : theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia

Gregg, Paul (contributor); Scutella, Rosanna (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Varieties of the rat race : working hours in the age of abundance

Behringer, Jan; Gonzalez Granda, Martin; Treeck, Till van - 2022

We ask why working hours in the rich world have not declined more sharply or even risen at times since the early 1980s, despite a steady increase in productivity, and why they vary so much across rich countries. We use an internationally comparable database on working hours (Bick et al., 2019)...

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