mechanisms of energetic flows via dissipation and physical work. I propose to relate this view with Kauffman's 'Fourth Law of … its use in the Kleidon model, the concept of physical work is expanded to including work directed at the capacity to work …

IT organizations are engaging and generating new forms of work such as software development. The new forms of work do not … culminate in a material or a physical product. Rather the new forms of work is processed through computers, headsets and phones …. Hence, this article presents the analysis of new forms of work emerging out of IT organizations. It addresses the question …

Due to the growing number of people in need of care and the importance of informal caregiving, achieving a work …-care balance should be of certain relevance for couples. This work analyses, based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, if … there are 'spill-over' effects from care to work within couples. For the years 2001-2011, it is examined if informal care by …

Due to the growing number of people in need of care and the importance of informal caregiving, achieving a work …-care balance should be of certain relevance for couples. This work analyses, based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, if … there are “spill-over” effects from care to work within couples. For the years 2001-2011, it is examined if informal care by …

to tax incentives, which can enhance the flow into work of people leaving school and women with young children and can … prolong employment among older workers. Human capital policy has a complementary role in improving the payoff to work and …

of the boundary between work time and free time (due to mechanisms of readiness, instruments of tele-working and so on …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain … significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work … externality that is internalized in Europe through laws on the minimum amount of vacation time (and maximum hours of work …