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Reduction of working time in Austria : a mixed methods study relating a new work time policy to employee preferences
Gerold, Stefanie; Nocker, Matthias - 2015
This mixed-methods study examines factors determining employees' desire to reduce worktime. The results of a binary logit regression model, based on data from the Austrian Microcencus 2012, suggest that employees who prefer shorter weekly working hours are older, higher educated and work longer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340243
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FLSA Working Hours Reform : Worker Well-Being Effects in an Economic Framework
Golden, Lonnie - 2015
A model is developed to predict the effects of recently proposed amendments to the FLSA workweek and overtime provisions. It contrasts allowing compensatory time for overtime pay for private non-exempt employees to “rights to request” reduced hours. It finds that hours demanded are likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034529
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Positive Health Externalities of Mandating Paid Sick Leave
Pichler, Stefan - 2020
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827331
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Positive health externalities of mandating paid sick leave
Pichler, Stefan; Wen, Katherine; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2020
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256319
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Reduction of Working Time in Austria. A Mixed Methods Study Relating a New Work Time Policy to Employee Preferences
Gerold, Stefanie; Nocker, Matthias - WWWforEurope - 2015
This mixed-methods study examines factors determining employees‘ desire to reduce worktime. The results of a binary logit regression model, based on data from the Austrian Microcencus 2012, suggest that employees who prefer shorter weekly working hours are older, higher educated and work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274360
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The Single-Mindedness of Labor Unions: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619925
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Reducción de la jornada laboral en un contexto de producción en el hogar
Ramos, José - In: Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics … 30 (2007) 83, pp. 085-136
Este trabajo se centra en analizar la reducción de la jornada laboral no sólo como una política de creación de empleo, sino como una política social que puede mejorar el bienestar de los individuos mediante una mejor conciliación de la vida familiar y laboral. Partiendo de un modelo de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207661
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The Employment of the Low-Skilled Youth in France
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331430
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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2013
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … short-term oriented policies can only have temporary effects. Ultimately, the youth unemployment disease in France and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770651
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The employment of the low-skilled youth in France
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755575