This study brings together results of the establishment and the individual level to get a better understanding of the use of working-time accounts in Germany. Using data from the Establishment Panel we first show that industrial relations factors, employment-contract characteristics and...

Arbeitszeitkonten ermöglichen eine variable Arbeitszeitverteilung in Betrieben, womit sich Nachfrageschwankungen abfedern und der Arbeitseinsatz an das Arbeitsaufkommen anpassen lassen. Im Zuge der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 wurden sie umfangreich genutzt, um Arbeitszeiten...

This article presents the IAB working time measurement concept, which determines the hours worked in Germany and their individual components. These statistics are essential for a proper analysis of aggregate labour market trends and cyclical fluctuations. We outline the conceptual and...

In diesem Forschungsbericht wird über den Anlass, die Methodik und die Ergebnisse der großen Revision 2014 der IAB-Arbeitszeitrechnung (AZR) im Rahmen der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) für den Zeitraum 1991 bis 2013 berichtet. Im Rahmen der AZR, die in die VGR eingebunden ist,...

Im Jahr 2014 wurde eine Generalrevision der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) durchgeführt. Damit wurden die im Europäischen System der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (ESVG) verbindlich festgelegten Konzepte und Definitionen umgesetzt. Die Ergebnisse der...

Modern working societies face the challenge to combine the establishments' with the employees' needs for working-time flexibility. The authors investigate the determinants of overtime and different working hours' arrangements using the German Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic...

Many fathers want to spend more time with their children and engage in household, but most of them continue to work full-time after the birth of a child. To better combine work and family, flexible working time arrangements might play a crucial role for fathers. Using data from the German...

This article presents the Working Time Measurement Concept of the Institute for Employment Research, which determines the hours worked in Germany and their individual components. The Working Time Measurement Concept is the key data product on working time in Germany and underlies the German...

This article analyses the relevance of the extensive and the intensive margin of labour adjustment over the business cycle in Germany and in the United States. Previous research has found that, firstly, the extensive margin dominates and that, secondly, the relative relevance of the two margins...