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Are working time accounts beneficial for German establishments?

Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2015

This contribution investigates whether working time accounts are beneficial for the performance of German establishments. Based on the representative German Establishment Panel of the Institute for Employment Research during the period 2008-2013, effects on productivity, wages, sales, firm size,...

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Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples : Are There Spillovers?

Wunder, Christoph - 2012

We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Self-reported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099785

Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples : Are There Spillovers?

Wunder, Christoph - 2012

We analyze how well-being is related to working time preferences and hours mismatch. Selfreported measures of life satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower among workers with working time mismatch. Particularly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101057

Keeping up with the Joneses : income comparisons and labour supply ; conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - Preliminary version August 07, 2013

We investigate whether working time is related to the intensity of income comparisons and relative income. Our simple theoretical model demonstrates that the effects of relative income concerns depend on whether an individual can choose contractual working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical...

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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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Loosening Hours Constraints on the Supply of Labor : What If Germans Had a Dutch Labor Market?

Wolf, Elke - 2008

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more exible labor market …

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Who is Working When? - Working Time Arrangments of Self-Employed and Employees : A Microeconometric Analysis of German Time Use Data

Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2009

In recent years new patterns of working time have appeared along with an increased flexibility concerning timing of work and the decay of the regular working day. We analyze the timing of working time for both self-employed and employees based on the German time budget study 1991/92. In the...

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Effects of a national work hours restriction in a high hours country

Lee, Jieun - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18

This paper examines the effect of a new maximum work hour restriction introduced in South Korea in 2018 that limited maximum working hours from 68 h/week to 52 h/week. I use difference-in-differences analysis with continuous treatment measuring the prevalence of those working longer than 52...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428359

Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295411

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