Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

This paper analyzes the discrepancy between actual and desired working hours in a multinational setting. Using the latest data of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) with a focus on work orientations hours constraints in 21 heterogeneous countries are analyzed. One major finding is...

In Deutschland findet die Humankapitalbildung in betrieblichen Ausbildungsgängen oder an den Fachhochschulen und Universitäten statt. Wie hoch sind die Renditen dieser Investitionen in das Humankapital? Welche Einkommensunterschiede bestehen zwischen den verschiedenen Berufsgruppen und...

The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Beitritts Polens zur EU gewinnt die Frage einen erhöhten Stellenwert, wie die noch weitgehend starren Arbeitszeitregelungen in Polen an westeuropäische Flexibilitätsstandards angepasst werden könnten. Der vorliegende Konferenzbeitrag informiert u.a. über die...

Auf Einladung der deutsch-polnischen Juristen-Vereinigung e.V. in Warschau wurde im Rahmen einer Konferenz drei besonders interessierende Themen aus dem Bereich „flexible Beschäftigungsformen und flexible Arbeitszeitgestaltung in Deutschland“ behandelt und in der vorliegenden verkürzten...

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...

Estimating the response of hours worked to technology shocks is often considered as a crucial step for evaluating the applicability of macroeconomic models to reality. In particular, Galí [1999] has considered the conditional correlation between employment and productivity as a key tool for...