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Working Hour Arrangements and Working Hours - a Microeconometric Analysis Based on German Time Use Diary Data
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2021
The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319642
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Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing
Bryan, Mark; Nandi, Alita - 2015
Following theories of social and economic identity, we use representative data containing measures of personal identity to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction, job-related anxiety and depression, and life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434156
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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates
Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451023
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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates
Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452422
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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
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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. 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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089251
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337852
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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/10011445026