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Working time, satisfaction and work life balance : a European perspective
Humpert, Stephan - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 64 (2014) 4, pp. 3-17
This paper analyses gender-specific differences in working time mismatches by using three different measures for representing satisfaction and work life balance. Results show that, while male satisfaction with life or work is in general not affected by working for more or less hours, over-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279849
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Working time, satisfaction and work life balance : a European perspective
Humpert, Stephan - 2014
Using three different measures for satisfaction, I investigate gender-specific differences in working time mismatch. While male satisfaction with life or job is slightly not effected by working more or less hours, only over-time lowers male work life balance significantly. Women are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440619
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Overeducation : new evidence for 25 European countries
Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016
far neglected explanatory factors such as household characteristics and field of study as well as to reveal country … concerns household variables. Among those determinants showing a largely uniform influence are nationality, job tenure …, temporary employment and presence of unemployed household members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011553984
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Overeducation - new evidence for 25 European countries
Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016
far neglected explanatory factors such as household characteristics and field of study as well as to reveal country …-related characteristics, but interestingly also concerns household variables. Among those determinants showing a largely uniform influence are … nationality, job tenure, temporary employment and presence of unemployed household members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452747
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Can US coordination failure explain why Americans work so much more than Europeans?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2014
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258175
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The gender gap in time allocation in Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2020
, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248993
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983896
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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981284