In the early 1970s, hours worked per working-age person in Spain were higher than in the United States. Starting in 1975, however, hours worked in Spain fell by 40%. We find that 80% of the decline in hours worked can be accounted for by the evolution of taxes in an otherwise standard...

Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across...

We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of...

Aktuell wird in Niedersachsen, Bremen, Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein anlässlich des bundesweit einmalig freien Reformationstages 2017 über die Einführung eines weiteren gesetzlichen Feiertages diskutiert. Arne Hansen und Dirk Meyer, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Universität der Bundeswehr,...

Ein zentrales Ergebnis dieser Studie ist, dass die Tarifbindung von Betrieben nicht mit einem Mangel an Betriebszeit- und Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung verbunden ist. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. In Relation zu den nicht tarifgebundenen Betrieben weisen die tarifgebundenen Betriebe in der für die...