Cover -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- COUNTRY COVERAGE BY REGION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 NORMAL HOURS LIMITS -- Introduction -- Weekly limits -- Daily limits -- 2 OVERTIME WORK -- Introduction -- Criteria for overtime work -- Prohibitions and limitations on overtime...

In many countries of the OECD business incubators have become an increasingly popular policy instrument for local economic and employment development. Business incubators aim to assist entrepreneurs with enterprise start-ups. Incubators are also being widely used to pursue related objectives...

Prior empirical studies have found that American workers report longer hours than workers in other highly industrialized countries, and that the highly educated report the longest hours relative to other educational levels. This paper analyzes disparities in working hours by gender and education...