**Below is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** This paper examines the role of the average workweek in U.S. manufacturing industries as a leading indicator. Our analysis investigates the relationship between average weekly hours of production workers in manufacturing, a...

Employment in the temporary help supply (THS) industry more than tripled in the U.S. between 1982 and 1992. During that period, the variability and cyclical sensitivity of THS jobs, their average weekly hours and real hourly earnings were extraordinarily high. In addition, changes in temporary...

The incidence of flexible daily work scheduling among workers presumably reflects employers' offering it formally as an organizational productivity-enhancing tool or less formally as a job amenity and/or discretionary employee benefit. Recent US CPS data distinguish whether a worker's flexible...

Underemployment, particularly in the form of working part time involuntarily, spiked to record levels in 2020, although by 2023 it had receded to its prepandemic level. Underemployment is disproportionately concentrated among workers who are paid hourly, have precarious work schedules or...

This article contributes to knowledge regarding determinants of happiness by examining the independent role played by having discretion over one’s working time, using data pooled from two years of a nationally representative US survey. Controlling for a worker’s income bracket and work hours...

This paper analyzes implications for worker well-being if legislation in the U.S. Congress is passed permitting employers and non-supervisory employees who agree to substitute future compensatory time off in lieu of premium pay for overtime work, calculated over an 80-hour two-week standard. The...

How do social economists conceptualize and analyze time, particularly time spent in paid employment? In this symposium regarding this quite “timely”" issue, it is evident that social economics views work time as something more than its presentation in neoclassical economics. For neoclassical...

Despite some attention devoted to part-time employment withinsufficient or inadequate work hours, research is still too limitedon how the burden of underemployment is distributeddisproportionately on vulnerable workers and its implications forfinancial well-being and work-family balance....