This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events...

This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its effectiveness as a job preservation mechanism, drawing on theoretical models and empirical...

Dieses Werk erläutert, wie die zahlreichen Rahmenbedingungen bei der Personaleinsatzplanung und der Dienstplangestaltung zu berücksichtigen sind, damit eine effektive und serviceorientierte sowie erfolgs- und ergebnisorientierte Personaleinsatzplanung gelingen kann. Viele praktische Beispiele...

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....