Have employment and hours become more flexible over time? Vector auto-regressions are estimated using monthly time-series data to generate impulse responses, which reflect the dynamic response of employment and average hours of labour input following a given shock in output demand. A marked...

What are some of the key historical trends and patterns in hours of work per worker in US? What forces and counterforces determine the length of individuals' work hours - economic, social-psychological-cultural, organizational and institutional? How much of the trend in work hours may be...

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...

Fair Workweek legislation has sprung up organically around the country in response to the prevalence and consequences of work schedules that may be unstable, unpredictable or unreliable. Labor standards need to be updated to deal with the widespread use of last minute, on-call or inadequate work...

This is a follow-up on “Happiness is Flextime” (Okulicz-Kozaryn and Golden 2017), but with focus on the case of unpredictability, the polar opposite of flextime. We study how schedule unpredictability is associated with a worker's subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use the 2016 US General Social...

A palliative nurse listed the most common regrets of the dying in their last days: "I wish I hadn't worked so hard" is among the top, especially for men. We know from philosophers, social scientists, and religious teachings that greed and materialism are vices. Yet, neo-classical economic...

Part time employment fulfills an important matching role in the labor market, given many workers’ preference for less than full time workweeks with many employers’ demand for less than full time labor input for certain jobs. Do part time workers in the US labor market earn less per hour than...