Several key trends across most advanced economic economies have increased both desired hours of work and the salience of working time on well-being. Models in the economics discipline offer both labor supply and labor demand reasons to explain why many people might be willing to work longer...

Contrary to the neoclassical theory of labor supply, it is argued here that the supply of labor is best modelled as a function of target market income and target non-market time which are, in turn, structured by an individual's hierarchy of needs. Thus, increasing wage rates need never result in...

A theoretical economic model is developed to explain the disparities in flexible work scheduling observed across firms, workplaces, sectors, and time periods. Given heterogeneity in firms’ costs, the supply of flextime is determined by firms’ costs of enacting versus not adopting it. The...

A theoretical economic model is developed to explain the disparities in flexible work scheduling observed across firms, workplaces, sectors and time periods. The model incorporates features of the behavioral economics approach to explaining the adoption of workplace innovations. The supply of...