Arbeitszeit: Verlängern? Verkürzen? Flexibilisieren?
Standen in früheren Jahren erst die Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit und dann die Arbeitszeitverlängerung im Zentrum der Debatten, ist nun eine flexible Gestaltung der Arbeitszeit der Wunsch von Unternehmen und vielen Beschäftigten. Die Politik fragt vor diesem Hintergrund: wie kann Arbeitszeitpolitik die Schaffung neuer Arbeitsplätze und die Sicherung vorhandener Arbeitsplätze unterstützen?
Die Infoplattform bietet weiterführende Informationen zu dieser Frage, zur Entwicklung der Arbeitszeiten in Deutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich, zur betrieblichen Gestaltung der Arbeitszeit und zu den Arbeitszeitwünschen der Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern.
- Forschung und Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
- Arbeitszeitpolitik
- Arbeitszeitentwicklung
- Arbeitszeit aus Sicht der Beschäftigten
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Arbeitszeitgestaltung
- flexible Arbeitszeitmodelle insgesamt
- gleitende Arbeitszeit
- Vertrauensarbeitszeit
- Arbeitszeitkonto
- Schichtmodelle, Wochenendarbeit
- Langzeiturlaub, Blockfreizeit
- Arbeit auf Abruf, KAPOVAZ
- Bereitschaftsdienst
- Job Sharing, Teilzeit, Altersteilzeit
- Telearbeit
- Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Kinderbetreuung, Elternzeit
- Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege
- Alter
- Geschlecht
- geografischer Bezug
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Preferences for collective working-time reduction policies: a factorial survey experiment (2023)
Castro, Damaris; Bleys, Brent;Zitatform
Castro, Damaris & Brent Bleys (2023): Preferences for collective working-time reduction policies: a factorial survey experiment. (Working paper / Ghent University. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration 2023,1076), Gent, 26 S.
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"Collective working-time reduction (WTR) policies, organized by companies, organizations, sectors or governments, can yield benefits across diverse domains including productivity and well-being. Despite an increasing number of WTR trials, the attractiveness of such policies remains relatively underexplored in literature. In this study, a factorial survey experiment investigates employees' preferences for collective WTR policies with pay reduction that vary along five dimensions. Findings reveal that employees favour policies that minimize pay reduction, that reduce working time moderately rather than extensively, and that establish a high degree of flexibility for taking up the additional leisure time. Moreover, the uptake amongst significant others matters: participation of colleagues as well as of close friends and family positively influences WTR attractiveness, although the latter primarily matter in WTR-supportive company cultures. Our findings provide valuable guidance for companies, organizations and policymakers when devising collective WTR policies and underline the importance of societal participation to enhance WTR attractiveness." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does work time reduction improve workers' well-being? Evidence from global four-day workweek trials (2023)
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Fan, Wen, Juliet Schor, Orla Kelly & Guolin Gu (2023): Does work time reduction improve workers' well-being? Evidence from global four-day workweek trials. (SocArXiv papers), 46 S. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/7ucy9
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"Time spent on the job is a fundamental aspect of working conditions that influences many aspects of individuals’ lives. In this ground-breaking research, we study how an organization-wide four-day workweek Intervention - with no reduction in pay - affects workers’ well-being. Participating organizations undergo pre-trial work reorganisation to improve efficiency and collaboration, followed by a six-month four-day workweek trial. Based on data collected from 2,134 employees in 123 organizations before and after the trial, we find that the trial leads to improvements in multiple measures of subjective well-being, including burnout, job satisfaction, positive affect, mental health, and physical health. Larger reductions in individuals' weekly hours predict greater gains in well-being outcomes. Mediation analysis indicates that three factors significantly contribute to the relationship between reduced working hours and increased well-being: improvements in self-reported work ability, reductions in sleep problems, and decreased levels of fatigue." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK (2023)
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Green, Colin P. & John S. Heywood (2023): Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 84. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102387
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"A large body of research links performance pay to poorer worker health. The mechanism generating this link remains in doubt. We examine a common suspect, that performance pay causes employees to work longer hours in pursuit of higher pay. Using UK data, we demonstrate that performance pay is associated with more work hours and a higher probability of working long hours. Yet approximately two thirds of these differences reflect worker sorting rather than behavioral change. The remaining effects are small except those for labourers. Indeed, controlling for hours of work does not diminish the link between worse self-reported health and performance pay." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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The results are in: The UK's four-day week pilot (2023)
Lewis, Kyle; Kamarāde, Daiga; Fan, Wen ; Kelly, Orla; Mullens, Francisca ; Gu, Guolin; Stronge, Will; Kellam, Jack; Bridson Hubbard, Niamh; Kikuchi, Lukas; White, Jon; Burchell, Brendan ; Schor, Juliet ; Frayne, David;Zitatform
Lewis, Kyle, Will Stronge, Jack Kellam, Lukas Kikuchi, Juliet Schor, Wen Fan, Orla Kelly, Guolin Gu, David Frayne, Brendan Burchell, Niamh Bridson Hubbard, Jon White, Daiga Kamarāde & Francisca Mullens (2023): The results are in: The UK's four-day week pilot. Crookham Village, 69 S.
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"This report details the full findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022. First, the report sets out the methodologies and forms of data collection employed in the course of the trial research, introduces key components of the four-day week trial’s design, and offers a breakdown of the participating organisations. We then turn to an analysis of data collected over the course of the trial: first, looking at the key metrics in company performance, such as revenue and staff turnover, before turning to employee-focused data, including health, well-being and work-life balance. Finally – and as an important addition to much of the previous four-day week trial research – we offer a range of ‘perspectives from the shopfloor’, drawing on extensive interview data from trial participants, staff and managers alike. We include focused case studies that highlight standout examples of differing practice across the four-day week companies, showing how participants, in their own words, tackled challenges, perceived the impacts, and reflected on the trial experience." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Income dynamics in the United Kingdom and the Impact of the Covid-19 recession (2022)
Bell, Brian; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Jack;Zitatform
Bell, Brian, Nicholas Bloom & Jack Blundell (2022): Income dynamics in the United Kingdom and the Impact of the Covid-19 recession. In: Quantitative Economics, Jg. 13, H. 4, S. 1849-1878. DOI:10.3982/QE1872
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"In this paper, we use an employer‐based survey of earnings and hours to set out the key patterns in UK earnings dynamics from 1975 to 2020, with a particular focus on the most recent recession. We demonstrate that (log) earnings changes exhibit strongly procyclical skewness and have become increasingly leptokurtic, and thus less well approximated by a log‐normal distribution, over the period of study. This holds across genders and sectors. Exploiting the long duration of our panel, we then explore the responsiveness of earnings and hours to aggregate and firm‐level shocks, finding ample heterogeneity in the exposure of different types of workers to aggregate shocks. Exposure is falling in age, firm size, skill level, and permanent earnings, and is lower for unionized and public sector workers. The qualitative patterns of earnings changes across workers observed in the Covid‐19 recession of 2020 are broadly as predicted using the previously estimated exposures and size of the shock. Firm‐specific shocks are important for wages given the variation in within‐firm productivity and the patterns of heterogeneity are markedly different than for aggregate shocks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Overtime in Europe: Regulation and practice (2022)
Cabrita, Jorge; Foden, David; Cerf, Catherine;Zitatform
Cabrita, Jorge, Catherine Cerf & David Foden (2022): Overtime in Europe: Regulation and practice. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Dublin, 48 S. DOI:10.2806/095550
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"Despite the well-known adverse effects of regular long working hours on workers’ health, well-being and performance, many workers in the EU continue to work beyond their normal hours. Part of this additional working time is classified as overtime. This report takes a comparative overview of how overtime is regulated in the EU Member States, Norway and the United Kingdom, including its definition, the limits on its use and the compensation received by workers for working extra hours. The report assesses the extent of the phenomenon using national-level data, delves into the factors that explain it, and examines the potential consequences for workers and firms. Finally, the report summarises the current debate on the topic, as uncompensated working hours, structural overtime and monitoring of working hours are currently some of the most discussed work-related issues across the EU." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Zero-hours Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market (2022)
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Dolado, Juan J., Etienne Lalé & Helene Turone (2022): Zero-hours Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market. (Discussion Paper / University of Bristol, Department of Economics 22/763), Bristol, 50 S.
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"We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC)- a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows workers to decline any workload. We find quantitatively mixed welfare effects of ZHCs. On one hand they unlock job creation among firms that face highly volatile business conditions and increase labor force participation of individuals who prefer flexible work schedules. On the other hand, the use of ZHCs by less volatile firms, where jobs are otherwise viable under regular contracts, reduces welfare and likely explains negative employee reactions to this contract." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does Performance Pay Influence Hours of Work? (2022)
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Green, Colin P. & John S. Heywood (2022): Does Performance Pay Influence Hours of Work? (IZA discussion paper 15474), Bonn, 37 S.
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"A large body of research links performance pay to poorer worker health. The exact mechanism generating this link remains in doubt. We examine a common suspect, that performance pay causes employees to work longer hours in pursuit of higher pay. Using representative data for the UK, we demonstrate that performance pay is associated with more work hours and a higher probability of working long hours. Yet approximately two thirds of these differences reflect worker sorting rather than behavioral change. The remaining influence appears too small to generate the differences in health except for blue-collar occupations that we isolate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fathers' Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK (2021)
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Cook, Rose, Margaret O'Brien, Sara Connolly, Matthew Aldrich & Svetlana Speight (2021): Fathers' Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 35, H. 6, S. 1014-1033. DOI:10.1177/0950017020946687
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"A conditional right to request flexible working arrangements (FWAs) has existed for most UK employee parents since 2003. However, there are growing concerns about access, particularly among fathers. Using nationally representative data from the 2015 UK Household Longitudinal Survey, this article examines fathers? perceptions of the availability of hours reduction, schedule flexibility and working from home. Results show that almost one-third of fathers believe that FWAs that reduce working hours are unavailable to them, compared with one-tenth of mothers. There are no gender differences in perceptions of availability of schedule and location flexibility. Among fathers, those with lower education levels, in lower status occupations, working in the private sector and in workplaces that do not have trade union presence are more likely to believe that FWAs are unavailable. Therefore, even though most employees now have the right to request FWAs, a significant minority of fathers do not perceive FWAs to be available to them." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Some Welfare Economics of Working Time (2021)
Fitzroy, Felix; Jin, Jim;Zitatform
Fitzroy, Felix & Jim Jin (2021): Some Welfare Economics of Working Time. (IZA discussion paper 14810), Bonn, 27 S.
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"Few skilled workers in the UK have flexible working time – GPs are the exception – most can only choose between unemployment, or full-time work, which has changed little in recent years, while part time work is mainly unskilled. This market rigidity imposes major welfare losses, in contrast to flexibility of worktime for all in the Netherlands, which has the best work-life balance. Stagnating real wages and rising employer market power and inequality follow declining unionisation, but a standard four-day week, tax reform, basic income, and flexibility rights for all could reverse these trends and provide major welfare gains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees (2021)
Mantovan, Noemi; Wilson, John; Sauer, Robert M.;Zitatform
Mantovan, Noemi, Robert M. Sauer & John Wilson (2021): The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees. (IZA discussion paper 14723), Bonn, 37 S.
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"Recent trends in the labor market see increasing numbers of workers having to deal with "schedule precarity" including volatile hours, rotating shift work, unpredictable work hours and lack of choice on the part of the employee. These trends are of concern to those interested in fostering levels of civic engagement because they potentially limit volunteering. This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) containing information on work schedules in 2011 and 2013 among employees to determine the effect of changes in work schedules on becoming a volunteer using transition regressions. We investigate interactions between work schedule measures and pay structure because workers paid by the hour have lower volunteer rates than salaried workers. The study finds that, while three of the schedule dimensions are unrelated to volunteering, transitioning towards more schedule control has a positive effect on volunteering. However, interaction analysis shows this positive effect is confined to salaried workers whereas for hourly paid workers the effect is negative. The results support the idea that having more freedom to set one's work schedule reduces work-life conflict but suggest that this positive effect is limited to those who can take advantage of it." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Flexible Working and Unpaid Overtime in the UK: the Role of Gender, Parental and Occupational Status (2020)
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Chung, Heejung & Mariska van der Horst (2020): Flexible Working and Unpaid Overtime in the UK. The Role of Gender, Parental and Occupational Status. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 151, H. 2, S. 495-520. DOI:10.1007/s11205-018-2028-7
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"Recent studies have shown that flexible boundaries between work and family may make employees work harder and longer. Yet most studies were not able to show whether there are differences across different types of flexible working arrangements, and whether this relationship may only hold for certain groups of workers. We examine how three different types of flexible working arrangements, that is schedule control, flexitime, and teleworking, are associated with an increase in unpaid overtime hours of workers in the UK using the Understanding Society data from 2010 to 2015 and fixed effects panel regression models. Results show that the flexible arrangements that were introduced primarily for work-life balance purposes, i.e., flexitime and teleworking, do not necessarily increase unpaid overtime hours significantly. On the other hand, workers' control over their schedule, mainly introduced as a part of high-performance strategies, leads to increased unpaid overtime hours. This is especially true for professional men, and women without children, especially those working full-time, and surprisingly part-time working mothers. The results of this study point to the importance of distinguishing between different groups of workers as well as between different types of arrangements when examining outcomes of flexible working. Furthermore, the results of the study contribute to the argument that performance enhancing flexible working arrangements can potentially exacerbate gender inequalities in the labour market by enabling men to commit more time to their jobs, while for women, especially full-time working mothers, this may be less possible." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK (2020)
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Chung, Heejung (2020): Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 151, S. 521-545. DOI:10.1007/s11205-018-2036-7
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"This study examines the prevalence and the gender differences in the perceptions and experiences of flexibility stigma -- i.e., the belief that workers who use flexible working arrangements for care purposes are less productive and less committed to the workplace. This is done by using the 4th wave of the Work-Life Balance Survey conducted in 2011 in the UK. The results show that 35% of all workers agree to the statement that those who work flexibly generate more work for others, and 32% believe that those who work flexibly have lower chances for promotion. Although at first glance, men are more likely to agree to both, once other factors are controlled for, women especially mothers are more likely to agree to the latter statement. Similarly, men are more likely to say they experienced negative outcomes due to co-workers working flexibly, while again mothers are more likely to say they experienced negative career consequences due to their own flexible working. The use of working time reducing arrangements, such as part-time, is a major reason why people experience negative career outcomes, and can partially explain why mothers are more likely to suffer from such outcomes when working flexibly. However, this relationship could be reverse, namely, the stigma towards part-time workers may be due to negative perceptions society hold towards mothers' commitment to work and their productivity. In sum, this paper shows that flexibility stigma is gendered, in that men are more likely to discriminate against flexible workers, while women, especially mothers, are more likely to suffer from such discrimination." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe (2020)
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Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio & José Alberto Molina (2020): The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe. (IZA discussion paper 13461), 42 S.
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"This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work, and child care is offered, and explanations based on education, earnings, and household structure are presented, using data from the EUROSTAT and the Multinational Time Use Surveys. There are large cross-country differences in the gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work, and child care, which remain after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, although the gender gap in paid work dissipates when the differential gendered relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and paid work is taken into account. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of gender gaps in Europe, helping to focus recent debates on how to tackle inequality in Europe, and clarifying the factors that contribute to gender inequalities in the uses of time." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Like ships passing in the night? Nonstandard work schedules and spousal satisfaction in Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (2020)
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Malinen, Kaisa, Anna Rönkä & Eija Sevón (2020): Like ships passing in the night? Nonstandard work schedules and spousal satisfaction in Finland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In: Journal of Family Research, Jg. 32, H. 2, S. 192-213. DOI:10.20377/jfr-359
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"Diese Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang von Arbeitszeiten und Zufriedenheit in der Ehe unter finnischen (n = 347), nieder ländischen (n = 304) und britischen (n = 337) Eltern. Neben dem Vergleich von Eltern mit außergewöhnlichen Arbeitszeiten und Eltern mit regulären Tagesarbeitszeiten, wurde gesondert untersucht, welche Rolle Morgen-, Abend-, Nacht- und Wochenendarbeit und andere arbeitszeitbezogenen Variablen (Arbeitsstunden, Änderungen der eigenen Arbeitszeiten und der des Ehepartners und deren Einfluss auf die eigenen Arbeitszeiten bzw. die des Ehepartners) spielen. Die Daten aus drei Ländern wurden mithilfe des Strukturgleichungsmodells durch einen Mehrgruppenvergleich in Impuls analysiert. Unter den anwesenden europäischen Arbeitnehmern wurden nur wenige Hinweise für eine Korrelation zwischen negativen Assoziationen zu Arbeitszeiten (damit zusammenhängenden Faktoren) und der Zufriedenheit in der Ehe festgestellt. Bei den untersuchten Assoziationen wurden keine Unterschiede zwischen den Ländern gefunden. Die quantitativen Analysen wurden durch Inhaltsanalysen der Eltern ergänzt, in denen sie beschreiben, wie sie die Auswirkungen der Arbeitszeiten auf ihre eheliche Beziehung erleben. Die Eltern beschrieben ihre Arbeitszeiten meist so, dass diese einen negativen Einfluss auf die Möglichkeiten zur gemeinsamen Zeitnutzung, auf die Organisation des Alltags sowie auf die psychologischen und physiologischen Reaktionen und die eheliche Kommunikation haben. Einige gaben jedoch auch Vorteile und Problemlösungen an, die in Verbindung zu ihren Arbeitszeiten stehen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Men Lose Life Satisfaction with Fewer Hours in Employment: Mothers Do Not Profit from Longer Employment: Evidence from Eight Panels (2020)
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Schröder, Martin (2020): Men Lose Life Satisfaction with Fewer Hours in Employment: Mothers Do Not Profit from Longer Employment. Evidence from Eight Panels. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 152, H. 1, S. 317-334. DOI:10.1007/s11205-020-02433-5
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"This article uses random and fixed effects regressions with 743,788 observations from panels of East and West Germany, the UK, Australia, South Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. It shows how the life satisfaction of men and especially fathers in these countries increases steeply with paid working hours. In contrast, the life satisfaction of childless women is less related to long working hours, while the life satisfaction of mothers hardly depends on working hours at all. In addition, women and especially mothers are more satisfied with life when their male partners work longer, while the life satisfaction of men hardly depend on their female partners' work hours. These differences between men and women are starker where gender attitudes are more traditional. They cannot be explained through differences in income, occupations, partner characteristics, period or cohort effects. These results contradict role expansionist theory, which suggests that men and women profit similarly from moderate work hours; they support role conflict theory, which claims that men are most satisfied with longer and women with shorter work hours." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Desired hours worked over the business cycle: stylised facts for European countries (2020)
Tuda, Dora;Zitatform
Tuda, Dora (2020): Desired hours worked over the business cycle: stylised facts for European countries. (Trinity economics papers 1320), Dublin, 37 S.
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"This paper documents stylised facts on desired hours per employed worker in European countries and identifies the effect of recessions on desired hours. Actual hours worked are usually used to estimate preferences on the labour market. However, actual hours are constrained by labour demand and therefore measure hours worked in the general equilibrium. Descriptive statistics from EU Labour Force Survey show that desired hours are countercyclical and that the underemployment gap increases due to higher desired hours worked of employed individuals. I identify the effect of recessions on desired hours using variation in regional unemployment rates from 2000 to 2017. I find that a 1 percentage point higher unemployment rate increases desired hours, on average, by 2 - 8 hours on a yearly level (3 - 5 minutes in the reference week). The results offer a lower bound estimate for the whole sample period of booms and busts. To narrow the sample period, I use a panel of individuals from the French LFS (EEC) and find even bigger effects. In France, from 2007q4 to 2009q1, an increase in regional unemployment rate by 1 percentage point increases desired hours by 1.6 hours in the reference week. Bottom decile of the income distribution significantly increases desired hours in all countries, suggesting an income effect labour supply response in recessions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Is thursday the new friday?: The future of working time and hopes for a four-day week (2019)
Briône, Patrick;Zitatform
Briône, Patrick (2019): Is thursday the new friday? The future of working time and hopes for a four-day week. (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Study), Berlin, 23 S.
Abstract
In letzter Zeit ist das Interesse an einer Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit in Großbritannien enorm gewachsen. Zuletzt schlossen sich die Gewerkschaften sowie die Labour-Partei der Forderung nach einer Vier-Tage-Woche an. Nach einem Jahrzehnt stagnierender Produktivität suchen britische Arbeitgeber nach innovativen Lösungen. Einige Unternehmen haben bereits begonnen, mit der Vier-Tage-Woche zu experimentieren, um das Engagement und Wohlbefinden ihrer Angestellten zu erhöhen und das Phänomen des sog. Präsentismus (das Ableisten überflüssiger Arbeitsstunden) zu verringern. Fallstudien zeigen, dass eine Vier-Tage-Woche in ausgewählten Fällen Vorteile mit sich bringen würde. Jedoch bestehen ernsthafte Hindernisse im Hinblick auf die politische Umsetzung.
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Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers?: A study of 6025 employees in the UK household longitudinal study (2019)
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Chandola, Tarani, Cara L Booker, Meena Kumari & Michaela Benzeval (2019): Are flexible work arrangements associated with lower levels of chronic stress-related biomarkers? A study of 6025 employees in the UK household longitudinal study. In: Sociology, Jg. 53, H. 4, S. 779-799. DOI:10.1177/0038038519826014
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"Debates around the benefits of flexible work arrangements for employee well-being are limited by a lack of empirical analyses on whether flexible working enables employees with work or family stressors to cope with their levels of stress. This study examines whether the availability and use of different flexible work arrangements are associated with lower allostatic load (an index of chronic stress-related biomarkers) in a large representative study of UK adults. Male and female employees who made use of reduced hours working arrangements had lower levels of allostatic load. Among women caring for two or more children aged under 15, there was a difference of almost one unit of the allostatic load index (an additional biomarker risk) between women who used reduced hours flexible work and those without such arrangements. Reduced hours flexible work arrangements could enable women who combine work and family roles to reduce their levels of chronic stress." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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'Women's work penalty' in access to flexible working arrangements across Europe (2019)
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Chung, Heejung (2019): 'Women's work penalty' in access to flexible working arrangements across Europe. In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 25, H. 1, S. 23-40. DOI:10.1177/0959680117752829
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"Many assume that women and workers in female-dominated workplaces will have better access to flexible working arrangements. Some use this as justification for the low wages found in these workplaces. Yet, empirical results are mixed. I explore this question by examining workers' access to schedule control across 27 European countries, and find no discernible gender differences in access to schedule control when individual and company-level characteristics are taken into account. However, working in female-dominated jobs and/or sectors significantly reduces access to schedule control for both men and women. This 'women's work penalty' in female-dominated sectors varies across Europe but nowhere was the access better compared to sectors where both genders are equally represented. This raises concerns regarding the lack of favourable working conditions, in addition to low pay found in female-dominated workplaces." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Zero-hours contracts and labour market policy (2019)
Datta, Nikhil; Giupponi, Giulia; Machin, Stephen;Zitatform
Datta, Nikhil, Giulia Giupponi & Stephen Machin (2019): Zero-hours contracts and labour market policy. In: Economic Policy, Jg. 34, H. 99, S. 369-427. DOI:10.1093/epolic/eiz008
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"The evolving nature of atypical work arrangements is studied. A particular focus is placed on one such form of work relation: zero-hours contracts (ZHCs). The paper uses existing secondary data and new survey data collected for the specific purpose of studying alternative work arrangements to describe the nature of ZHC work in the UK labour market. The interaction with labour market policy is explored, in the context of the 2016 introduction of the UK's National Living Wage. ZHC work is shown to be an important feature of today's work arrangements, and the wage cost shock induced by the new, higher minimum wage resulted in an increased use of ZHCs in the UK social care sector, and in low wage sectors more generally." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Women's employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworking (2018)
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Chung, Heejung & Mariska van der Horst (2018): Women's employment patterns after childbirth and the perceived access to and use of flexitime and teleworking. In: Human Relations, Jg. 71, H. 1, S. 47-72. DOI:10.1177/0018726717713828
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"This article sets out to investigate how flexitime and teleworking can help women maintain their careers after childbirth. Despite the increased number of women in the labour market in the UK, many significantly reduce their working hours or leave the labour market altogether after childbirth. Based on border and boundary management theories, we expect flexitime and teleworking can help mothers stay employed and maintain their working hours. We explore the UK case, where the right to request flexible working has been expanded quickly as a way to address work - life balance issues. The dataset used is Understanding Society (2009 - 2014), a large household panel survey with data on flexible work. We find some suggestive evidence that flexible working can help women stay in employment after the birth of their first child. More evidence is found that mothers using flexitime and with access to teleworking are less likely to reduce their working hours after childbirth. This contributes to our understanding of flexible working not only as a tool for work - life balance, but also as a tool to enhance and maintain individuals' work capacities in periods of increased family demands. This has major implications for supporting mothers' careers and enhancing gender equality in the labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Normalarbeit: Nur Vergangenheit oder auch Zukunft? (2018)
Muckenhuber, Johanna; Hödl, Josef; Griesbacher, Martin;Zitatform
Muckenhuber, Johanna, Josef Hödl & Martin Griesbacher (Hrsg.) (2018): Normalarbeit. Nur Vergangenheit oder auch Zukunft? (Gesellschaft der Unterschiede 37), Bielefeld: Transcript, 357 S.
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"Im Zuge der breit und kontinuierlich geführten Debatte um 'atypische' Beschäftigungsverhältnisse als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung ist das 'typische' Normalarbeitsverhältnis zunehmend aus dem Fokus des Interesses gerückt. Doch was verstehen wir unter Normalarbeit? Welche Erwartungen sind mit ihr verbunden? Ist sie ein Bild der Vergangenheit oder ein Weg in die Zukunft der Arbeit?
Die Beiträge des Bandes liefern eine vertiefte kritisch-interdisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung mit dem Konzept und der Wirklichkeit von 'Normalarbeit' und behandeln ihre begrifflichen Rahmenlinien und Entstehungsbedingungen. Aspekte der Arbeitszeit und Besonderheiten der Kompetenzanforderungen sowie beruflichen Qualifikation werden ebenso thematisiert wie interessenpolitische Perspektiven." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)Weiterführende Informationen
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Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women?: re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the 'Great Recession' in Britain (2018)
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Warren, Tracey & Clare Lyonette (2018): Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the 'Great Recession' in Britain. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 747-767. DOI:10.1177/0950017018762289
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"Britain has long stood out in Europe for its extensive but poor-quality part-time labour market dominated by women workers, who are concentrated in lower-level jobs demanding few skills and low levels of education, offering weak wage rates and restricted advancement opportunities. This article explores trends in part-time job quality for women up to and beyond the recession of 2008/9, and asks whether post-recessionary job quality remains differentiated by occupational class. A pre-recessionary narrowing of the part-time/full-time gap in job quality appears to have been maintained for the women in higher-level part-time jobs, while part- and full-timers in lower-level jobs suffered the worst effects of the recession, signalling deepening occupational class inequalities among working women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Reasons to reduce: A vignette-experiment examining men and women's considerations to scale back following childbirth (2018)
van Breeschoten, Leonie; van der Lippe, Tanja; Roeters, Anne;Zitatform
van Breeschoten, Leonie, Anne Roeters & Tanja van der Lippe (2018): Reasons to reduce: A vignette-experiment examining men and women's considerations to scale back following childbirth. In: Social Politics, Jg. 25, H. 2, S. 169-200. DOI:10.1093/sp/jxy003
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"The reduction of working hours can help avoid work-family conflict, yet many people who would like to scale back do not actually do so. This vignette-experiment examines which considerations are most important in men and women's decision-making whether to scale back following childbirth. About 2,464 vignettes were conducted in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Results indicate that men find the income of their partner and career consequences most important, while women focus mainly on partner income and collegial support. Swedes, however, differ from their Dutch and British counterparts, and express more counter-gender-normative behavior." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Beschäftigungsregime im Vergleich: Arbeitsqualität von Teilzeitbeschäftigung in Deutschland, Schweden und dem Vereinigten Königreich (2017)
Fritz, Martin;Zitatform
Fritz, Martin (2017): Beschäftigungsregime im Vergleich. Arbeitsqualität von Teilzeitbeschäftigung in Deutschland, Schweden und dem Vereinigten Königreich. (Bonner Reihe der empirischen Sozialforschung 01), Opladen: Budrich, 277 S.
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"Brauchen wir mehr und bessere Teilzeitjobs? Ausgehend von der gesellschaftspolitischen Diskussion um eine Verringerung der Arbeitszeit thematisiert der Autor die Arbeitsqualität von Teilzeitbeschäftigten in Deutschland, Schweden und dem Vereinigten Königreich. Seine Analysen führen dabei nicht nur zu empirisch fundierten Zahlen und Fakten und zuverlässigen Ergebnissen. Durch die Integration familienpolitischer Aspekte entwickelt er zudem das Konzept der Beschäftigungsregime weiter und macht es für praktisches politisches Handeln fruchtbar." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)
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Paths towards family-friendly working time arrangements: comparing workplaces in different countries and industries (2017)
Wiß, Tobias;Zitatform
Wiß, Tobias (2017): Paths towards family-friendly working time arrangements. Comparing workplaces in different countries and industries. In: Social policy and administration, Jg. 51, H. 7, S. 1406-1430. DOI:10.1111/spol.12270
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"Although studies have examined the distribution and conditions of employer-provided work - family arrangements, we still lack a systematic investigation of how these vary for different countries and industries. Based on the European Working Conditions Survey 2010, this study examines the conditions under which firms provide family-friendly working time arrangements and what the differences are across four countries (Austria, Denmark, Italy and the UK) and four industries. The impact of employee representatives, employee involvement, manager support and female managers varies across countries and industries because of the institutional environment (prevailing family model, industrial relations) and workforce composition (gender). The impact of employee representatives depends on their co-determination rights, and the direction of their effect on the prevailing family model (e.g. negative in conservative countries such as Austria) and the gender composition of the workforce (negative in male-dominated production, but positive in services). Employee involvement in the work organization is significantly positive in Austria and Denmark (both with co-operative industrial relations), while manager support has the strongest effect in the UK (liberal regime). At the industry level, female supervisors are positively associated with family-friendly working time arrangements only in the male-dominated production industry. These findings suggest that the effects of agency variables and their direction vary depending on the institutional context." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Hours worked in Europe and the US: new data, new answers (2016)
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Bick, Alexander, Bettina Brüggemann & Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (2016): Hours worked in Europe and the US. New data, new answers. (IZA discussion paper 10179), Bonn, 44 S.
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"We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the educational composition each account for one third to one half of this gap. Lower hours per person than in the US are in addition driven by lower weekly hours worked in Scandinavia and Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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What mothers want: The impact of structural and cultural factors on mothers' preferred working hours in Western Europe (2016)
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Pollmann-Schult, Matthias (2016): What mothers want: The impact of structural and cultural factors on mothers' preferred working hours in Western Europe. In: Advances in life course research, Jg. 29, H. September, S. 16-25. DOI:10.1016/j.alcr.2015.11.002
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"This study investigates how social policies, gender norms, and the national working time regime shape mothers' preferred working hours. Using data from the European Social Survey (ESS) for 15 countries across Western Europe, the study reveals that generous public child care and cultural support for gender equality are associated with smaller gaps in the preferred working hours between mothers and childless women. High levels of financial support for families, in contrast, predict larger gaps in preferred working hours. The analysis also indicates that a low prevalence of non-standard work and high levels of work-time flexibility reduce the differences in preferred employment hours between mothers and non-mothers. Individual characteristics such as education, gender ideology, and the partners' socioeconomic status greatly impact women's preferred employment hours; however, they do not modify the effect of motherhood. This study concludes that the impact of parenthood on women's employment hours is highly contingent upon various institutional and cultural factors." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing (2015)
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Bryan, Mark & Alita Nandi (2015): Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing. (ISER working paper 2015-21), Colchester, 43 S.
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"Following theories of social and economic identity, we use representative data containing measures of personal identity to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction, job-related anxiety and depression, and life satisfaction). We find that for a given level of hours, having a stronger work identity is associated with higher wellbeing on most measures. Working long hours is associated with lower wellbeing and working part-time is associated with higher wellbeing, but for men hours mainly affect their job-related anxiety and depression rather than reported satisfaction. The relationships between hours and wellbeing are generally strengthened when controlling for identity implying that individuals sort into jobs with work hours that match their identities. Work identity partially mitigates the adverse effects of long hours working on job satisfaction and anxiety (for women) and on life satisfaction (for men). The effects of both work hours and identity are substantial relative to benchmark effects of health on wellbeing." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Informal caring and labour market outcomes within England and Wales (2015)
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Drinkwater, Stephen (2015): Informal caring and labour market outcomes within England and Wales. In: Regional studies, Jg. 49, H. 2, S. 273-286. DOI:10.1080/00343404.2013.766320
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"Landesinterne Analysen der Verknüpfungen zwischen informeller Pflege und den Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt wurden bisher nur in begrenztem Umfang durchgeführt, obwohl bei der informellen Pflege starke regionale Schwankungen auftreten. Dieses Thema ist von Bedeutung, weil die Gebiete mit dem höchsten Ausmaß von informeller Pflege in der Regel von relativ geringer Wirtschaftsaktivität und niedrigen Beschäftigungsquoten gekennzeichnet sind. Trotz der starken Schwankungen bei der informellen Pflege weisen die Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt für verschiedene Pflegekategorien in England und Wales keine ausgeprägten Unterschiede auf. Allerdings sind die Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt für Männer und Frauen, die in großem Umfang Pflegedienste leisten, insbesondere in den Tälern von Südwales starken Einflüssen ausgesetzt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Long workweeks and strange hours (2015)
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Hamermesh, Daniel S. & Elena Stancanelli (2015): Long workweeks and strange hours. In: ILR review, Jg. 68, H. 5, S. 1007-1018. DOI:10.1177/0019793915592375
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"U.S. workweeks are long compared to workweeks in other rich countries. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. The authors examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Only small portions of the U.S. - European differences are attributable to observable characteristics. Adjusting for demographic and occupational differences, Americans' incidence of night and weekend work would drop by no more than 10% if the average European workweek prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the incidence of unusual work times in the United States would far exceed those in continental Europe." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The gender gap in employment hours: do work-hour regulations matter? (2015)
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Landivar, Liana Christin (2015): The gender gap in employment hours. Do work-hour regulations matter? In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 29, H. 4, S. 550-570. DOI:10.1177/0950017014568139
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"In all developed countries, women, especially mothers, work fewer paid hours than their spouses. However, the magnitude of the gender gap varies significantly by country, ranging from 2 to 20 hours per week in this study. Using data from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, this article investigates whether work-hour regulations have a significant effect on household allocation of paid labour and gender work-hour inequality. Two main types of work-hour regulations are examined: standard weekly work hours and the maximum allowable weekly work hours. Results show that households in countries with shorter maximum weekly work hours had less work-hour inequality between spouses, as each additional allowable overtime hour over the standard working week increased the work-hour gap between couples by 20 minutes. These results indicate that couples' inequality in work hours and gender inequality in labour supply are associated with country-level work-hour regulations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gender, age and flexible working in later life (2015)
Loretto, Wendy; Vickerstaff, Sarah;Zitatform
Loretto, Wendy & Sarah Vickerstaff (2015): Gender, age and flexible working in later life. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 29, H. 2, S. 233-249. DOI:10.1177/0950017014545267
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"In many countries economic and social concerns associated with ageing populations have focused attention onto flexible forms of working as key to encouraging people to work longer and delay retirement. This article argues that there has been a remarkable lack of attention paid to the role of gender in extending working lives and contends that this gap has arisen because of two, inter-related, oversights: little consideration of relationships between gender and flexible working beyond the child-caring phase of life; and the prevailing tendency to think of end of working life and retirement as gender-neutral or following a typical male trajectory. The findings of a qualitative study of people aged 50+ in the UK challenge some of the key assumptions underpinning the utility of flexible work in extending working lives, and provide insight into the ways in which working in later life is constructed and enacted differently for men and women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Working-time flexibility and autonomy: a European perspective on time adequacy (2015)
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Lott, Yvonne (2015): Working-time flexibility and autonomy. A European perspective on time adequacy. In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 21, H. 3, S. 259-274. DOI:10.1177/0959680114543604
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"This study examines the effect of working-time flexibility and autonomy on time adequacy, using the 2010 European Working Conditions Survey. It addresses gender differences and institutional contexts in the UK, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands, and reveals that time arrangements have gendered meanings. While working-time flexibility and autonomy are positively related to time adequacy for women, for men they tend to imply overtime and work intensification. Furthermore, working-time regimes also shape time arrangements. In the UK, employees have time adequacy primarily when they work fixed hours, while in the Netherlands, employees profit most from working-time autonomy. Moreover, unlike in Germany and the UK, men and women in the Netherlands and Sweden benefit more equally from working-time flexibility and autonomy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work-life balance/imbalance: the dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class (2015)
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Warren, Tracey (2015): Work-life balance/imbalance. The dominance of the middle class and the neglect of the working class. In: The British Journal of Sociology, Jg. 66, H. 4, S. 691-717. DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.12160
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"The paper was stimulated by the relative absence of the working class from work-life debates. The common conclusion from work-life studies is that work - life imbalance is largely a middle-class problem. It is argued here that this classed assertion is a direct outcome of a particular and narrow interpretation of work-life imbalance in which time is seen to be the major cause of difficulty. Labour market time, and too much of it, dominates the conceptualization of work-life and its measurement too. This heavy focus on too much labour market time has rendered largely invisible from dominant work-life discourses the types of imbalance that are more likely to impact the working class. The paper's analysis of large UK data-sets demonstrates a reduction in hours worked by working-class men, more part-time employment in working-class occupations, and a substantial growth in levels of reported financial insecurity amongst the working classes after the 2008-9 recession. It shows too that economic-based work-life imbalance is associated with lower levels of life satisfaction than is temporal imbalance. The paper concludes that the dominant conceptualization of work-life disregards the major work-life challenge experienced by the working class: economic precarity. The work-life balance debate needs to more fully incorporate economic-based work-life imbalance if it is to better represent class inequalities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Giving up: how gendered organizational cultures push mothers out (2014)
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Cahusac, Emma & Shireen Kanji (2014): Giving up: how gendered organizational cultures push mothers out. In: Gender, Work and Organization, Jg. 21, H. 1, S. 57-70. DOI:10.1111/gwao.12011
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"Explanations for professional and managerial mothers' departure from paid work concentrate on childcare and women's preferences or choices. In contrast, our study, based on in-depth interviews with professional and managerial mothers in London, shows that women's experiences within hegemonic masculine cultures play a key role. For example, working time norms require these mothers to work exceptionally long hours, to have permeable time boundaries even if they have negotiated reduced working hours and to 'socialize' in the evenings. Mothers are limited in their ability to protest or implement creative working time solutions because they feel they must hide their motherhood, which in itself creates tension. Mothers who are seemingly supported to work fewer hours are sidelined to lower-status roles for which they are underpaid and undervalued in relation to their experience and previous seniority. Unless mothers mimic successful men, they do not look the part for success in organizations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Long workweeks and strange hours (2014)
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Hamermesh, Daniel S. & Elena Stancanelli (2014): Long workweeks and strange hours. (NBER working paper 20449), Cambridge, Mass., 14 S. DOI:10.3386/w20449
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"American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting for demographic differences, Americans' incidence of night and weekend work would drop by about 10 percent if European workweeks prevailed. Even if no Americans worked long hours, the incidence of unusual work times in the U.S. would far exceed those in continental Europe." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Working time flexibility and autonomy: Facilitating time adequacy?: a European perspective (2014)
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Lott, Yvonne (2014): Working time flexibility and autonomy: Facilitating time adequacy? A European perspective. (WSI-Diskussionspapier 190), Düsseldorf, 20 S.
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"This study examines the effect of working time flexibility and autonomy on time adequacy using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) in 2010. Drawing on gender theory and welfare state theory, gender differences and the institutional contexts of the UK, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands are taken into account. The study reveals that time arrangements have gendered meanings. While working time flexibility and autonomy are positively related to time adequacy for women, men tend to experience overtime and work intensification in connection with working time autonomy. Furthermore, working time regimes also shape time arrangements. In the UK, employees have time adequacy primarily when they work fixed hours, while in the Netherlands, employees profit most from working time autonomy. Moreover, unlike in Germany and the UK, men and women in the Netherlands and Sweden benefit more equally from working time flexibility and autonomy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Part-time wage penalties for women in prime age: a matter of selection or segregation? evidence from four European countries (2014)
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Matteazzi, Eleonora, Ariane Pailhe & Anne Solaz (2014): Part-time wage penalties for women in prime age. A matter of selection or segregation? evidence from four European countries. In: ILR review, Jg. 67, H. 3, S. 955-985. DOI:10.1177/0019793914537457
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"Using the European Union Statistics an Income and Living Conditions data for the year 2009, the authors evaluate how vertical and horizontal job segregation explains the differential between fulltime and part-time pay for prime-age women in four European countries: Austria, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom. The selected countries are representative of different welfare state regimes, Labor market regulations, and extents and forms of parttime employment. Full-time hourly wages exceed part-time hourly wages, especially in market-oriented economies, such as Poland and the United Kingdom. Results using the Neuman-Oaxaca decomposition methods show that most of the full-time -- part-time wage gap is driven by job segregation, especially its vertical dimension. Vertical segregation explains an especially large Part of the pay gap in Poland and die United Kingdom, where, more than elsewhere, part-timers are concentrated in low-skilled occupations and the wage disparities across occupations are quite large." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States (2014)
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Nikolova, Milena & Carol Graham (2014): Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States. In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies, Jg. 3, S. 1-30. DOI:10.1186/2193-9012-3-5
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"Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and underemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable public pension systems in welfare states around the world. We examine the relationships between well-being and job satisfaction on the one hand and employment status and retirement, on the other, using Gallup World Poll data for several European countries and the United States. We find that voluntary part-time workers are happier, experience less stress and anger, and have higher job satisfaction than other employees. Using statistical matching, we show that late-life workers under voluntary part-time or full-time arrangements have higher well-being than retirees. There is no well-being premium for involuntary late-life work and self-employment compared to retirement, however. Our findings inform ongoing debates about the optimal retirement age and the fiscal burdens of public pension systems." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Part-time work, women's work-life conflict, and job satisfaction: a cross-national comparison of Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (2014)
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Roeters, Anne & Lyn Craig (2014): Part-time work, women's work-life conflict, and job satisfaction. A cross-national comparison of Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In: International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Jg. 55, H. 3, S. 185-203. DOI:10.1177/0020715214543541
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"This study uses the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2013 'Family and Changing Gender Roles' module (N?=?1773) to examine cross-country differences in the relationship between women's part-time work and work - life conflict and job satisfaction. We hypothesize that part-time work will lead to less favorable outcomes in countries with employment policies that are less protective of part-time employees because the effects of occupational downgrading counteract the benefits of increased time availability. Our comparison focuses on the Netherlands and Australia while using Germany, the United Kingdom, and Sweden as benchmarks. Part-time employment is prevalent in all five countries, but has the most support and protection in the Dutch labor market. We find little evidence that country of residence conditions the effects of part-time work. Overall, the results suggest that part-time work reduces work-life conflict to a similar extent in all countries except Sweden. The effects on job satisfaction are negligible. We discuss the implications for social policies meant to stimulate female labor force participation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gender, sexuality and male-dominated work: the intersection of long-hours working and domestic life (2014)
Wright, Tessa;Zitatform
Wright, Tessa (2014): Gender, sexuality and male-dominated work. The intersection of long-hours working and domestic life. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 28, H. 6, S. 985-1002. DOI:10.1177/0950017013512713
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"The UK construction and transport sectors remain the most heavily male-dominated industries, showing minimal progress in women's participation. Long and inflexible working hours presume a male model of the worker unconstrained by caring responsibilities. Yet the experiences of the minority of women who work in these sectors are of interest to those concerned with reducing occupational gender segregation. Sexuality is often overlooked in differentiating women's experience of male-dominated work, and gender conflated with heterosexuality. Through examining the interaction of domestic circumstances and work arrangements of heterosexual women and lesbians, this article finds that atypical domestic circumstances may be required to support male-dominated work. Heterosexual 'breadwinner' norms were challenged by women's capacity for higher earnings from male-dominated work, but often required strategies to manage associated emotions. Evidence from lesbian relationships indicates a possible shift from prioritization of financial self-sufficiency in the context of legal status for same-sex partnerships." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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EU employers take family-friendly working seriously (2013)
Broughton, Andrea;Zitatform
Broughton, Andrea (2013): EU employers take family-friendly working seriously. Dublin, 12 S.
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"A survey investigating family-friendly working policies in companies in six European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, UK) finds that employers take family-friendly working seriously and have put in place a range of policies to support this, especially in areas such as flexible working and parental support. The main driver for this in most countries was compliance with legislation or collective agreements. The economic crisis has had little impact on the provision of family-friendly working policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Homeworking: negotiating the psychological contract (2013)
Collins, Alison M.; Hislop, Donald; Cartwright, Susan;Zitatform
Collins, Alison M., Susan Cartwright & Donald Hislop (2013): Homeworking. Negotiating the psychological contract. In: Human resource management journal, Jg. 23, H. 2, S. 211-225. DOI:10.1111/j.1748-8583.2012.00200.x
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"This article explores the psychological contract of female clerical homeworkers who work from home full-time and are employed at a local authority. Qualitative interviews were carried out with homeworkers and their supervisors. Temporal flexibility was desired by all the homeworkers in order to achieve a better work - life balance, and was deemed important by women without children as well as those with childcare responsibilities. Our findings highlight that homeworkers were able to negotiate their own idiosyncratic deals with line managers in order to attain their desired levels of temporal flexibility. However, the issue of flexibility remains ambiguous with some supervisory staff being more comfortable with the concept than others, leading to some homeworkers enjoying different levels of temporal flexibility than their co-workers. Our findings suggest that employees perceive flexibility idiosyncratic deals of co-workers as fair as long as they achieve their own personal levels of temporal flexibility. The potential implications for organisations are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Overtime working and contract efficiency (2013)
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue;Zitatform
Hart, Robert A. & Yue Ma (2013): Overtime working and contract efficiency. (IZA discussion paper 7560), Bonn, 32 S.
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"We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training combined with firm and worker information asymmetries. It may be optimal for the parties to work 'long hours' remunerated at premium rates for guaranteed overtime hours. Based on British plant and machine operatives, we test three predictions. First, trained workers with longer job tenure are more likely to work overtime. Second, hourly overtime pay exceeds the value of marginal product while the basic hourly wage is less than the value of marginal product. Third, the basic hourly wage is negatively related to the overtime premium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Management und Teilzeitarbeit: Wunsch und Wirklichkeit (2013)
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Hipp, Lena & Stefan Stuth (2013): Management und Teilzeitarbeit. Wunsch und Wirklichkeit. (WZBrief Arbeit 15), Berlin, 6 S.
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"Manager und Managerinnen arbeiten in Europa selten Teilzeit. Auch auf Führungsebene ist Teilzeit 'Frauendomäne'. Teilzeitarbeit im Management wird stark von der Arbeitszeit- und Geschlechterkultur in den Ländern beeinflusst." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Conflict between work and family: An investigation of four policy measures (2013)
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Ruppanner, Leah (2013): Conflict between work and family: An investigation of four policy measures. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 110, H. 1, S. 327-347. DOI:10.1007/s11205-011-9929-z
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"Welfare states enact a range of policies aimed at reducing work-family conflict. While welfare state policies have been assessed at the macro-level and work-family conflict at the individual-level, few studies have simultaneously addressed these relationships in a cross-national multi-level model. This study addresses this void by assessing the relationship between work-family and family-work conflict and family-friendly policies in 10 countries. Applying a unique multi-level data set that couples country-level policy data with individual-level data (N=7,895) from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, the author analyzes the relationship between work-family and family-work conflict and four specific policy measures: family leave, work scheduling, school scheduling, and early childhood education and care. The results demonstrate that mothers and fathers report less family-work and mothers less work-family conflict in countries with more expansive family leave policies. Also, in countries with longer school schedules mothers report less and women without children more work-family conflict." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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A matter of time: young professionals' experiences of long work hours (2013)
Sturges, Jane;Zitatform
Sturges, Jane (2013): A matter of time: young professionals' experiences of long work hours. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 27, H. 2, S. 343-359. DOI:10.1177/0950017012460318
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"This article examines young construction industry professionals' experiences of working long hours from the perspective of the meanings that they ascribe to work time and how these influence the hours that they work. It considers how such notions of 'qualitative' time spent on work may shape attitudes and behaviour relating to 'quantitative' work hours. The findings show that, for the interviewees, work time has meanings chiefly associated with enjoyment, being professional and being part of a work family. The article contributes to the long work hours literature by broadening our understanding of how young professionals experience long work hours, why they may not always view them negatively and how the meanings that they attach to them can lead to particular patterns of work hours. It also highlights gender differences in this regard." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mothers and work-life balance: exploring the contradictions and complexities involved in work-family negotiation (2013)
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Wattis, Louise, Kay Standing & Mara A. Yerkes (2013): Mothers and work-life balance. Exploring the contradictions and complexities involved in work-family negotiation. In: Community, work & family, Jg. 16, H. 1, S. 1-19. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2012.722008
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"This article presents data from a project exploring women's experiences of work and care. It focuses primarily on work-life balance as a problematic concept. Social and economic transformations across advanced post-industrial economies have resulted in concerns about how individuals manage their lives across the two spheres of work and family and achieve a work-life balance. Governments across the European Union have introduced various measures to address how families effectively combine care with paid work. Research within this area has tended to focus on work-life balance as an objective concept, which implies a static and fixed state fulfilled by particular criteria and measured quantitatively. Qualitative research on women's experiences reveals work-life balance as a fluctuating and intangible process. This article highlights the subjective and variable nature of work-life balance and questions taken-for-granted assumptions, exploring problems of definition and the differential coping strategies which women employ when negotiating the boundaries between work and family." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Access to flexible working and informal care (2012)
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Bryan, Mark L. (2012): Access to flexible working and informal care. In: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Jg. 59, H. 4, S. 361-389. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9485.2012.00585.x
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"We use matched employer-employee data to explore the relationship between employees' access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 10% more hours of informal care, with effects concentrated among full-time workers providing small amounts of care. The wider workplace environment beyond formal flexible work also appears to facilitate care. Workplaces do not respond to the presence of carers by providing flexible work, instead there is some underlying selection of carers into flexible workplaces." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The motherhood penalty in cross-national perspective: the importance of work-family policies and cultural attitudes (2012)
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Budig, Michelle J., Joya Misra & Irene Boeckmann (2012): The motherhood penalty in cross-national perspective. The importance of work-family policies and cultural attitudes. In: Social Politics, Jg. 19, H. 2, S. 163-193. DOI:10.1093/sp/jxs006
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"Mothers' employment and earnings partly depend on social policies and cultural norms supporting women's paid and unpaid work. Previous research suggests that work-family policies are deeply shaped by their cultural context. We examine country variation in the associations between motherhood and earnings, in cultural attitudes surrounding women's employment, and in childcare and parental leave policies. We model how cultural attitudes moderate the impact of policies on women's earnings across countries. Parental leaves and public childcare are associated with higher earnings for mothers when cultural support for maternal employment is high, but have less positive or even negative relationships with earnings where cultural attitudes support the male breadwinner/female caregiver model." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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La régulation du temps de travail en Grande-Bretagne: à la croisée des changements politiques nationaux et de l'influence de l'Union européenne (2012)
Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis;Zitatform
Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis (2012): La régulation du temps de travail en Grande-Bretagne. À la croisée des changements politiques nationaux et de l'influence de l'Union européenne. In: Travail et emploi H. 128, S. 55-68.
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"Working time patterns are multi-faceted and more than one discipline can shed light an their determinants. Existing explanations of trends in working time highlight several socio-economic factors, while the relevance of political factors has been associated with the combination of party policies and welfare institutions that lead to diverging Social Democratic, Liberal, and Christian Democratic ' worlds' of work time. This article examines the case of the UK and demonstrates that party government - and, through it, democratic politics - can make a difference within a given model of capitalism or ' world of working time'. One notable additional characteristic of this case is the role of trade unions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How do employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life?: a seven-country comparison of the impact of family policies on women's employment (2012)
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Hennig, Marina, Stefan Stuth, Mareike Ebach & Anna Erika Hägglund (2012): How do employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life? A seven-country comparison of the impact of family policies on women's employment. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 32, H. 9/10, S. 513-529. DOI:10.1108/01443331211257625
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"Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in Denmark, Germany, France, Finland, Great Britain, Sweden and Switzerland. The paper seeks to explore why women in certain countries are more successful in combining family responsibilities with gainful employment.
Design/methodology/approach - Drawing on data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2005, the questions are addressed by applying country specific linear regression analysis at the individual level, correlations at the country level as well as policy analysis.
Findings - The analysis shows that the most important factors influencing employed women's perception of the reconciliation are work load, the presence of children in the household and part-time employment. In addition, the findings point at cross-national differences. In countries where family policies focus on integrating men and women into the labour market, women rate the reconciliation of work and family life higher than in countries whose family policies aim at supporting the family.
Research limitations/implications - By comparing seven European countries the paper shows that family policies are closely related to employed women's perceptions of the reconciliation. In order to understand the interaction between the individual perception and the institutional framework, the paper suggests that further research is needed on women's perceptions in each country.
Originality/value - The paper explores how employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life in seven European countries and explains the differences by means of family policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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It's all about control: worker control over schedule and hours in cross-national context (2012)
Lyness, Karen S.; Stone, Pamela; Grotto, Angela R.; Gornick, Janet C.;Zitatform
Lyness, Karen S., Janet C. Gornick, Pamela Stone & Angela R. Grotto (2012): It's all about control: worker control over schedule and hours in cross-national context. In: American Sociological Review, Jg. 77, H. 6, S. 1023-1049. DOI:10.1177/0003122412465331
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"Workers' ability to control their work schedules and hours varies significantly among industrialized countries. We integrate and extend prior research from a variety of literatures to examine antecedents of control and worker outcomes. Using hierarchical linear modeling and data for 21 countries from the 1997 ISSP Work Orientations Survey supplemented with national indicators developed from a variety of sources, we find that control is associated with country characteristics (affluence, welfare state generosity, union coverage, and working-time regulations), worker attributes (being male, being older, and being better educated), and job characteristics (working part-time, being self-employed, having higher earnings, and having more advancement opportunities). We also examine the relationship of control to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and strain-based work-family conflict. Generally, low levels of control are linked to negative outcomes for workers, especially for women, an effect sometimes modulated by country-level policy measures." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Aggregate hours worked in OECD countries: new measurement and implications for business cycles (2012)
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Ohanian, Lee E. & Andrea Raffo (2012): Aggregate hours worked in OECD countries. New measurement and implications for business cycles. In: Journal of monetary economics, Jg. 59, H. 1, S. 40-56. DOI:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2011.11.005
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"We build a dataset of quarterly hours worked for 14 OECD countries. We document that hours are as volatile as output, that a large fraction of labor adjustment takes place along the intensive margin, and that the volatility of hours relative to output has increased over time. We use these data to reassess the Great Recession and prior recessions. The Great Recession in many countries is a puzzle in that labor wedges are small, while those in the U.S. Great Recession - and those in previous European recessions - are much larger." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fathers' childcare and parental leave policies: evidence from western European countries and Canada (2012)
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Reich, Nora, Christina Boll & Julian Sebastian Leppin (2012): Fathers' childcare and parental leave policies. Evidence from western European countries and Canada. (HWWI research paper 115), Hamburg, 21 S.
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"The study at hand pursues the following question: How are national parental leave arrangements related to fathers' participation in and time used for childcare? To answer this question, we merge data from the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) with national parental leave characteristics. Specifically, we are using 30 surveys from eight industrialised countries from 1971 to 2005. Applying a selection model, we are estimating fathers' participation in childcare and the minutes per day spent on childcare. We control for the following parental leave characteristics: duration of leave, amount of benefits and the number of weeks reserved for the father. The main results are that duration of parental leave, exclusive weeks for the father and any benefit compared to no benefit have a positive impact on fathers' childcare participation. Parental leave weeks reserved for the father and parental leave benefits affect fathers' minutes of childcare positively. It is concluded that parental leave characteristics have effects on fathers' childcare participation and time spent on childcare, but that parental leave policies have to be evaluated within the framework of each country's family policy package." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work-to-family and family-to-work spillover: the implications of childcare policy and maximum work-hour legislation (2012)
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Ruppanner, Leah & Joy E. Pixley (2012): Work-to-family and family-to-work spillover: the implications of childcare policy and maximum work-hour legislation. In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Jg. 33, H. 3, S. 283-297. DOI:10.1007/s10834-012-9303-6
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"This paper addresses the relationship between individual-level work-to-family and family-to-work spillover and two country-level policy measures: childcare policy and maximum work hour legislation. Coupling Gornick and Meyers' (Families that work: policies for reconciling parenthood and employment, 2003) policy measures with individual-level data (N=7,895) from the 2002 International Social Survey Programme, the authors analyze whether men and women in countries with stronger childcare policies and maximum work-hour legislation exhibit work-to-family and family-to-work spillover. The authors find that neither childcare policy nor maximum work-hour legislation is significantly associated with work-to-family spillover. Stronger childcare policy is associated with lower family-to-work spillover for women, especially for women with young children. Maximum-hour legislation is associated with greater family-to-work spillover for women, with a significantly larger effect for mothers of young children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Overtime work as a predictor of major depressive episode: a 5-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study (2012)
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Virtanen, Marianna, Stephen A. Stansfeld, Rebecca Fuhrer, Jane E. Ferrie & Mika Kivimäki (2012): Overtime work as a predictor of major depressive episode. A 5-year follow-up of the Whitehall II study. In: PLoS one, Jg. 7, H. 1, S. 1-5. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0030719
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"Background: The association between overtime work and depression is still unclear. This study examined the association between overtime work and the onset of a major depressive episode (MDE).
Methodology/Principal Findings: Prospective cohort study with a baseline examination of working hours, psychological morbidity (an indicator of baseline depression) and depression risk factors in 1991-1993 and a follow-up of major depressive episode in 1997-1999 (mean follow-up 5.8 years) among British civil servants (the Whitehall II study; 1626 men, 497 women, mean age 47 years at baseline). Onset of 12-month MDE was assessed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) at follow-up. In prospective analysis of participants with no psychological morbidity at baseline, the odds ratio for a subsequent major depressive episode was 2.43 (95% confidence interval 1.11 to 5.30) times higher for those working 11+ hours a day compared to employees working 7-8 hours a day, when adjusted for socio-demographic factors at baseline. Further adjustment for chronic physical disease, smoking, alcohol use, job strain and work-related social support had little effect on this association (odds ratio 2.52; 95% confidence interval 1.12 to 5.65).
Conclusions/Significance: Data from middle-aged civil servants suggest that working long hours of overtime may predispose to major depressive episodes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Work hours constraints and health (2011)
Bell, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Otterbach, Steffen;Zitatform
Bell, David, Steffen Otterbach & Alfonso Sousa-Poza (2011): Work hours constraints and health. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 424), Berlin, 29 S.
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"The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers' health. In particular, we show that 'overemployment' - working more hours than desired - has negative effects on different measures of self-perceived health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: working hours in the US, UK and France (2011)
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Blundell, Richard, Antoine Bozio & Guy Laroque (2011): Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply. Working hours in the US, UK and France. (IZA discussion paper 6051), Bonn, 35 S.
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"This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the extensive and intensive margins. This decomposition is also shown to be coherent with the analysis of labour supply elasticities at these margins. We use detailed representative micro-datasets to examine the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins in explaining the overall changes in total hours worked." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The organization of working time in the knowledge economy: an insight into the working time patterns of consultants in the UK and the USA (2011)
Donnelly, Rory;Zitatform
Donnelly, Rory (2011): The organization of working time in the knowledge economy. An insight into the working time patterns of consultants in the UK and the USA. In: British Journal of Industrial Relations, Jg. 49, H. s1, S. s93-s114. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00826.x
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"The development of the knowledge economy is creating new and diverse working time patterns. This study uses survey and qualitative interview data from consultants operating as organizational employees, as well as those acting as freelance contractors to explore the organization of working time among knowledge workers in the UK and the USA. The findings reveal how these forms of employment and national context shape and produce complex nuances in the working patterns and experiences of these important highly skilled workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fathers and work-life balance in France and the UK: policy and practice (2011)
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Gregory, Abigail & Susan Milner (2011): Fathers and work-life balance in France and the UK. Policy and practice. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 31, H. 1-2, S. 34-52. DOI:10.1108/01443331111104797
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"Purpose - This paper seeks to focus on the role of organizations in mediating the impact of national work-life balance (WLB) policy on employees, in particular fathers.
Design/methodology/approach - It presents existing research about WLB policy implementation in organizations as well as the findings of empirical work in insurance and social work in France and the UK (questionnaire survey, case study analysis, interviews with national and sector-level trade union officials).
Findings - These indicate that fathers' take-up of WLB policies is the outcome of a complex dynamic between national fatherhood regimes, organizational and sector characteristics and the individual employee. They suggest that fathers tend to use WLB measures to spend time with their families where measures increase their sense of entitlement (state policies of paternity leave) or where measures offer non-gendered flexibility (reduced working time/organizational systems of flexi-time). In line with other studies it also finds that fathers extensively use informal flexibility where this is available (individual agency).
Practical implications - These findings have implications for the way WLB policies are framed at national and organizational level. At national level they indicate that policies work best when they give fathers a sense of entitlement, by giving specific rights linked to fatherhood (e.g. paternity leave or 'daddy month'-type arrangements), and or by providing universal rights (e.g. to reduced working time and/or flexible working time); however, where measures are linked to childcare they are often framed as mothers' rights when translated to the organizational level. The research also shows that informal flexibility is used and valued by fathers within organizations, but that such informal arrangements are highly subject to local variation and intermediation by line managers and co-workers; hence, for effective and even coverage they would need to be backed up by formal rights.
Originality/value - Cross-national comparative research into WLB policy and practice at national and organizational level is very rare. The empirical work presented in this paper, although exploratory, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of WLB policy and practice, particularly as it relates to fathers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Does job satisfaction adapt to working conditions?: an empirical analysis for rotating shift work, flextime, and temporary employment in UK (2011)
Hanglberger, Dominik;Zitatform
Hanglberger, Dominik (2011): Does job satisfaction adapt to working conditions? An empirical analysis for rotating shift work, flextime, and temporary employment in UK. (FFB-Diskussionspapier 87), Lüneburg, 18 S.
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"Die Adaptionstheorie - basierend auf dem hedonic treadmill model - wurde in mehreren Studien hauptsächlich von Psychologen und Ökonomen empirisch überprüft. Der Schwerpunkt wurde dabei auf die Auswirkungen einzelner Lebensereignisse auf globale subjektive Wohlfahrtsindikatoren (Lebenszufriedenheit/Happiness) gelegt. Auf die Zufriedenheit mit einzelnen Lebensbereichen wurde die Adaptionstheorie bislang kaum angewendet. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es deshalb zu untersuchen, inwiefern die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Adaptionseffekten beeinflusst wird und welche Umstände einer individuellen Adaption an veränderte Arbeitsbedingungen förderlich bzw. hinderlich ist? Dazu analysieren wir auf Basis von bis zu 18 Wellen des British Household Panel Surveys (BHPS), wie abhängig Beschäftigte in ihrer subjektiven Bewertung der Arbeitssituation auf die Einführung von Gleitzeitregelungen, die Arbeit in Wechselschichtsystemen und befristete Beschäftigungsverhältnisse reagieren. Unsere auf fixed-effects Regressionsmodellen basierenden Analysen zeigen, dass das Adaptionspotential je nach Arbeitsplatzmerkmal deutlich variiert. Während positive Effekte von Gleitzeitregelungen auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit voll adaptiert werden, findet sich für die befristete Beschäftigung nur eine teilweise Adaption. Für die Arbeit in Wechselschichtsystemen zeigt sich ein dauerhaft negativer Effekt auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit, also kein Adaptionseffekt." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Non-standard working time: an international and comparative analysis (2011)
Richbell, Suzanne; Brookes, Michael; Wood, Geoffrey; Brewster, Chris;Zitatform
Richbell, Suzanne, Michael Brookes, Chris Brewster & Geoffrey Wood (2011): Non-standard working time. An international and comparative analysis. In: The international journal of human resource management, Jg. 22, H. 4, S. 945-962. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2011.555135
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"This paper uses the large-scale Cranet data to explore the extent of non-standard working time (NSWT) across Europe and to highlight the contrasts and similarities between two different varieties of capitalism (coordinated market economies and liberal market economies). We explore variations in the extent of different forms of NSWT (overtime, shift working and weekend working) within these two different forms of capitalism, controlling for firm size, sector and the extent of employee voice. Overall, there was no strong link between the variety of capitalism and the use of overtime and weekend working though shift working showed a clear distinction between the two varieties of capitalism. Usage of NSWT in some service sectors was particularly high under both forms of capitalism and service sector activities had a particularly marked influence on the use of overtime in liberal market economies. Surprisingly, strong employee voice was associated with greater use of NSWT." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf im europäischen Vergleich (2011)
Rohwer, Anja;Zitatform
Rohwer, Anja (2011): Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf im europäischen Vergleich. In: Ifo-Schnelldienst, Jg. 64, H. 10, S. 28-32.
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"Familien sehen sich immer häufiger verschiedensten Herausforderungen gegenübergestellt, wenn sie versuchen, Familie und Beruf miteinander zu vereinbaren. In diesem Beitrag werden die Ergebnisse einiger Studien vorgestellt, die europäische Unternehmen im Hinblick auf familienfreundliche Personalpolitik befragten. Demnach weisen die meisten europäischen Unternehmen dem Thema 'Familienfreundlichkeit' einen hohen Stellenwert zu." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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'Managing' reductions in working hours: A study of work-time and leisure preferences in UK industry (2011)
Wheatley, Dan; Philp, Bruce; Hardill, Irene;Zitatform
Wheatley, Dan, Irene Hardill & Bruce Philp (2011): 'Managing' reductions in working hours: A study of work-time and leisure preferences in UK industry. In: Review of Political Economy, Jg. 23, H. 3, S. 409-420. DOI:10.1080/09538259.2011.583832
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"This paper, which is predicated on the view that reductions in work-time are generally desirable, explores the working hours of managers and professionals in UK industry. Managers and professionals are often grouped together in empirical and theoretical work, e.g. in the literature on the professional-managerial class, and Goldthorpe's 'Service Class'. Nevertheless, there are differences: professionals, historically, are autonomous workers; the role of managers, in contrast, is to extract work from others on behalf of the organisation. Using data collected from the 2005 Labour Force Survey we establish there are statistically significant empirical differences between managers and professionals; one of these differences is in attitudes to work-time. We theorise that this is because managers' roles align their attitudes with those desired by the firm or organisation, and we conclude that, as a consequence, the 'voluntary' nature of work-time regulation should be revisited." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Sonntagsarbeit: Auswirkungen auf Sicherheit, Gesundheit und Work-Life-Balance der Beschäftigten (2011)
Wirtz, Anna; Nachreiner, Friedhelm; Rolfes, Katharina;Zitatform
Wirtz, Anna, Friedhelm Nachreiner & Katharina Rolfes (2011): Sonntagsarbeit. Auswirkungen auf Sicherheit, Gesundheit und Work-Life-Balance der Beschäftigten. In: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft, Jg. 65, H. 2, S. 136-146.
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"Obwohl die Anzahl der Beschäftigten in biologisch und sozial ungünstigen Arbeitszeiten stetig steigt, liegen bislang nur äußerst wenige Erkenntnisse zu den Effekten der Arbeit am Wochenende, und insbesondere an Sonntagen, auf die Sicherheit, Gesundheit und soziale Teilhabe der Beschäftigten vor. Die vorliegende Studie demonstriert anhand der Daten aus zwei großen und repräsentativen europäischen Umfragen, dass Arbeit an Sonntagen das Risiko für arbeitsbedingte Unfälle sowie gesundheitliche und soziale Beeinträchtigungen deutlich erhöht. Diese Zusammenhänge lassen sich auch nach der Kontrolle potenziell konfundierender Effekte nachweisen. Das durch Sonntagsarbeit offensichtlich erhöhte Risiko für die Gefährdung von Arbeitsschutzzielen sollte daher in der Diskussion um die gesetzlichen Spielräume für die Sonntagsarbeit, z. B. im Einzelhandel, wie bei einer möglichen Revision der europäischen Arbeitszeitrichtlinie sowie insbesondere bei der Gestaltung der konkreten Arbeitszeiten auf jeden Fall angemessen berücksichtigt werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The relationship between hours worked in the UK and the economy (2010)
Coleman, Jessica; Stam, Peter;Zitatform
Coleman, Jessica & Peter Stam (2010): The relationship between hours worked in the UK and the economy. In: Economic and Labour Market Review, Jg. 4, H. 9, S. 50-54.
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"Hours of work are recognised by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as key indicators of the labour market. Differences between actual and usual hours worked may result from firms using overtime to meet increasing demand or reducing hours to control costs, and as such, could be considered an indicator of labour market flexibility. The Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England pay close attention to the number of hours worked when considering monetary policy decisions as these may be more closely related to changes in demand and output than the level of employment. This is because firms might want to retain staff during periods of lower output growth, or conversely delay recruitment until the need for it is clearly established through a sustained increase in demand. This article describes the different measures of hours data in the UK and investigates how they may be used to analyse the UK labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Women between part-time and full-time work: The influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction (2010)
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Gash, Vanessa, Antje Mertens & Laura Romeu Gordo (2010): Women between part-time and full-time work: The influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 268), Berlin, 42 S.
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"This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by measuring the impact of changes in working-hours on life satisfaction in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Quality part-time work: an evaluation of the quality part-time work fund (2010)
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Lyonette, Clare & Beate Baldauf (2010): Quality part-time work. An evaluation of the quality part-time work fund. London, 60 S.
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"The UK has one of the highest levels of part-time working in Europe. Evidence shows a significant pay gap between women working full time and women working part time, and also a continuing gender pay gap with women working part time faring particularly badly in relation to men.
In response to the Women and Work Commission's recommendations in 2006, the Government funded a Quality Part-time Work Fund programme aimed at achieving culture change so that more senior jobs, particularly in skilled occupations and the professions, would be open to part-time and flexible working. The report 'Quality part-time work: an evaluation of the Quality Part-time Work Fund' is an evaluation of this programme." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Working time management and SME performance in Europe (2010)
Smith, Mark; Zagelmeyer, Stefan;Zitatform
Smith, Mark & Stefan Zagelmeyer (2010): Working time management and SME performance in Europe. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 31, H. 4, S. 392-409. DOI:10.1108/01437721011056994
Abstract
"This paper aims to explore the management of working time flexibility and firm performance, measured by operating hours, in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper analyses the European Capital Operating time, Work and Employment Survey (EUCOWE), designed to collect workplace information on operating hours. With data on more than 17,000 establishments in six European countries - France, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK - the paper analyses working time patterns and operating hours.
Findings: The authors show the positive relationship between company size and operating times and how SMEs make more limited use of more advanced forms of working-time organisation that may allow them to extend their operating hours. The use of less complex working time measures such as overtime does not have the same positive association with operating hours. However, the results also highlight that smaller establishments can still benefit from the adoption of certain working time practices. The results suggest that the influence of the regulatory environment on the use of working practices or the duration of operating hours is not straightforward, and as such the impact of national regulatory frameworks cannot be discounted in the country-specific differences identified.
Originality/value: The paper uses the first comparable data on operating hours and working patterns to demonstrate the limitations on SME operating times across European countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Comparative analyses of operating hours and working times in the European Union (2009)
Delsen, Lei; Schief, Sebastian; Kocoglu, Yusuf; Munoz de Bustillo, Rafael; Cette, Gilbert ; Bauer, Frank; Fernández-Macías, Enrique ; Sieglen, Georg; Smith, Mark; Zagelmeyer, Stefan; Smits, Jeroen; Groß, Hermann; Sylvain, Arnaud;Zitatform
Schief, Sebastian, Yusuf Kocoglu, Rafael Munoz de Bustillo, Enrique Fernández-Macías, Georg Sieglen, Stefan Zagelmeyer, Jeroen Smits, Hermann Groß & Arnaud Sylvain (2009): Comparative analyses of operating hours and working times in the European Union. (Contributions to economics), Heidelberg u.a.: Physica-Verl., 217 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-7908-2185-7
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Der Band ist die zweite Veröffentlichung im Rahmen des Projekts EUCOWE 'Working Times and Operating Hours in Europe'. In sechs europäischen Ländern - Frankreich, Großbritannien, Niederlande, Portugal, Spanien und Deutschland - wurde im Jahre 2003 eine Unternehmensbefragung zum Thema Arbeits- und Betriebszeiten durchgeführt. Das Projekt EUCOWE stellt die erste repräsentative und standardisierte europäische Betriebserhebung dar, die Unternehmen aller Kategorien und Größen sowie alle Wirtschaftszweige abdeckt. Der Band baut auf der ersten im Jahre 2007 erschienenen Publikation auf, in der die Untersuchungsmethode und deskriptive nationale Ergebnisse sowie erste vergleichende Analyseergebnisse präsentiert wurden, und ergänzt diese. In diesem zweiten Buch präsentiert das Forschungsteam von EUCOWE detaillierte ländervergleichende Analysen zur Beziehung zwischen Betriebszeiten, Arbeitszeiten und Beschäftigung in der Europäischen Union. In sechs empirischen Kapiteln des Bandes werden detaillierte vergleichende Analysen der Determinanten und Konsequenzen der Dauer und Flexibilität von Öffnungszeiten und Betriebszeiten vorgelegt. (IAB)
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International comparisons of hours worked: an assessment of the statistics (2009)
Fleck, Susan E.;Zitatform
Fleck, Susan E. (2009): International comparisons of hours worked: an assessment of the statistics. In: Monthly labor review, Jg. 132, H. 5, S. 3-31.
Abstract
"A study of 13 countries reveals that measures of hours worked based on administrative sources are relatively low while measures based on establishment and labor force surveys are relatively high; thus, although ever improving, these measures cannot yet be taken at face value and are useful only for broad comparisons." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Working hours flexibility and older workers' labor supply (2009)
Gielen, Anne C.;Zitatform
Gielen, Anne C. (2009): Working hours flexibility and older workers' labor supply. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 61, H. 2, S. 240-274. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpn035
Abstract
"This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply. Using panel data for the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can freely reduce working hours with their current employer before retiring completely. However, some over-employed women are observed to leave the labor market early due to hours constraints. This suggests that more flexibility in working hours can increase the labor market participation for some older workers as has often been suggested." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Future horizons for work-life balance (2009)
Hogarth, Terence; Bosworth, Derek;Zitatform
Hogarth, Terence & Derek Bosworth (2009): Future horizons for work-life balance. London, 11 S.
Abstract
Der Begriff 'Work-Life-Balance' steht für einen Zustand, in dem bezahlte Arbeit und Privatleben - von der Kinderbetreuung über Hausarbeit bis zu Freizeitaktivitäten - miteinander in Einklang stehen, wobei die Betonung auf der individuellen Entscheidung und der Selbstorganisation einerseits und dem Abgleich zwischen Arbeitnehmer- und Arbeitgeberinteressen andererseits liegt. Die Autoren geben einen Überblick über die Begriffsgeschichte von Work-Life-Balance ausgehend von dem Kampf um kürzere Arbeitszeiten in der zweiten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts und die seitdem ergriffenen Maßnahmen von Politik und Arbeitgebern im Sinne der angezielten Ausgewogenheit. Es folgt eine Darstellung gegenwärtiger Manifestierungen der Work-Life-Balance in Großbritannien und der EU wie zum Beispiel reduzierte Arbeitszeiten, Mutter- und Vaterschaftsregelungen, flexible Anwesenheitszeiten. Dabei kommen die Autoren zu dem Schluss, dass die Verwirklichung des Konzepts der Work-Life-Balance alle zu Gewinnern macht; dies gilt sowohl für Arbeitgeber als auch für Arbeitnehmer und den Staat. Abschließend werden Empfehlungen für die Weiterentwicklung eines effektiven Gleichgewichts von Arbeit und Privatleben in der Zukunft formuliert. (IAB)
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European vs American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins (2009)
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Langot, François & Coralia Quintero-Rojas (2009): European vs American hours worked. Assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins. In: Economics Bulletin, Jg. 29, H. 2, S. 531-543.
Abstract
"Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the total-hours-gap between regions. Moreover, both ratios have similar weight. Conversely, the intensive margin, measured by the number of hours worked per employee, has the smallest role." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Small and medium-sized establishments in Europe: operating hours and working time patterns (2009)
Smith, Mark; Sieglen, Georg; Zagelmeyer, Stefan;Zitatform
Smith, Mark, Stefan Zagelmeyer & Georg Sieglen (2009): Small and medium-sized establishments in Europe: operating hours and working time patterns. In: L. Delsen, F. Bauer, G. Cette & M. Smith (Hrsg.) (2009): Comparative analyses of operating hours and working times in the European Union, S. 117-142. DOI:10.1007/978-3-7908-2185-7_5
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In dem Beitrag wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Betriebszeiten und Arbeitszeitformen in Abhängigkeit von der Betriebsgröße untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie, der Daten aus dem Projekt EUCOWE 'Working Times and Operating Hours in Europe' zugrunde liegen, steht die Frage nach spezifischen Mustern der Nutzung unterschiedlicher Arbeitszeitformen zur Entkopplung und Flexibilisierung von Arbeits- und Betriebzeiten von kleinen und mittelgroßen Betrieben im Unterschied zu Großbetrieben. Berücksichtigung finden dabei auch verschiedene weitere betriebliche Charakteristika wie die betriebliche Eigenständigkeit, die Wirtschaftszweigzugehörigkeit und die Wettbewerbsorientierung. Darüber hinaus werden länderspezifische Unterschiede der Betriebszeitorganisation zwischen den untersuchten Ländern (Deutschland, Spanien, Portugal, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Niederlande) aufgezeigt. (IAB)
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Job changes and hours changes: understanding the path of labor supply adjustment (2008)
Zitatform
Blundell, Richard, Mike Brewer & Marco Francesconi (2008): Job changes and hours changes. Understanding the path of labor supply adjustment. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 26, H. 3, S. 421-453. DOI:10.1086/588245
Abstract
"We use British panel data to investigate single women's labor supply changes in response to three reforms that affected individuals' work incentives. We use these reforms to identify changes in labor supply. There is evidence of small hours of work effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in 1999 instead led to a significant increase in single mothers' hours of work. The mechanism by which the labor supply adjustments were made occurred largely through job changes rather than hours changes with the same employer. This is little overall effect of the reforms on wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job satisfaction and family happiness: The part-time work puzzle (2008)
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van;Zitatform
Booth, Alison L. & Jan C. van Ours (2008): Job satisfaction and family happiness: The part-time work puzzle. In: The economic journal, Jg. 118, H. 526, S. F77-F99.
Abstract
"We investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel Survey. Men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they work. Women present a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether these are small or large but their life satisfaction is virtually unaffected by hours of work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Working time developments 2008 (2008)
Carley, Mark;Zitatform
Carley, Mark (2008): Working time developments 2008. Dublin, 35 S.
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"In 2008, average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union stood at 38.6 hours; agreed normal annual working time averaged about 1,740 hours. Of the three economic sectors examined in this study, agreed weekly working hours are highest in metalworking (38.7), followed by the banking and local government sectors (both 38.3). Average collectively agreed paid annual leave entitlement was 25.2 days across the EU in 2008, although the total varied significantly between the 'old' and the new Member States. This report also examines statutory working time and leave limits, and actual working hours. This annual update looks at a number of aspects of the duration of working time in the European Union and Norway in 2008, based on contributions from the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) national centres. The study examines the following issues: average weekly working hours as set by collective agreements - both at national level and for three specific economic sectors; statutory limits on weekly and daily working time; average actual weekly working hours; annual leave entitlement, as set by collective agreements and law; and estimates of average collectively agreed annual working time. The report provides a general overview of the current situation and developments regarding working time, but the figures provided should be read with caution, and the various notes and explanations borne in mind. This reflects the fact that there are a number of problems in international comparisons of the length of working time. Comparable data are not collected in all countries, while particular difficulties include the following: the existence of different ways of calculating working time, with annual, rather than weekly calculation increasingly common in some countries (TN0308101S); the fact that working time reductions in some countries have been introduced through extra days off or cuts in annual working hours, leaving the normal working week relatively unchanged; the increasing use of schemes whereby weekly working hours may vary considerably, with an average being maintained over a reference period; the treatment of part-time workers; the differing roles of collective bargaining and legislation, with the latter having an impact on actual hours in some countries, but acting only as a maximum 'safety net' in others." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Preference or constraint?: part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom (2008)
Gash, Vanessa;Zitatform
Gash, Vanessa (2008): Preference or constraint? Part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 22, H. 4, S. 655-674. DOI:10.1177/0950017008096741
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"This article investigates whether women work part-time through preference or constraint and argues that different countries provide different opportunities for preference attainment. It argues that women with family responsibilities are unlikely to have their working preferences met without national policies supportive of maternal employment. Using event history analysis the article tracks part-time workers' transitions to both full-time employment and to labour market drop-out. The article compares the outcome of workers in the UK, a country with little support for maternal employment, relative to Denmark and France, two countries with a long history of facilitating workers' engagement in both paid employment and family life. It finds evidence of part-time constraint in the UK relative to the other two countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Feature: the price of reconciliation: part-time work, families and women's satisfaction (2008)
Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara;Zitatform
Gregory, Mary & Sara Connolly (2008): Feature: the price of reconciliation: part-time work, families and women's satisfaction. In: The economic journal, Jg. 118, H. 526, S. F1-F7. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02113.x
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"While the gender pay gap has been narrowing for women in full-time jobs the pay penalty for the 40 % of women who work part-time has risen, reflecting the growing polarisation of part-time jobs in low-wage occupations. A further dimension is that women often experience downgrading from higher-skill full-time into lower-skill part-time occupations. As women reorganise their working lives around the presence of children their reported hours and job satisfaction are highest in part-time work, but life-satisfaction is scarcely affected by hours of work. This Feature explores these issues and their challenge for economic efficiency as well as gender equity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Das "weiche" Recht auf familienfreundliche Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in Großbritannien (2008)
Hegewisch, Ariane;Zitatform
Hegewisch, Ariane (2008): Das "weiche" Recht auf familienfreundliche Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in Großbritannien. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 61, H. 2, S. 100-106. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2008-2-100
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"Wie mehrere andere europäische Länder verabschiedete auch Großbritannien als Reaktion auf die EU-Teilzeitrichtlinie ein Gesetz, das es Arbeitnehmern leichter machen sollte, ihre Arbeitszeit auf Teilzeit zu verkürzen oder sie anderweitig familienfreundlicher zu gestalten. Der britische Ansatz ist einzigartig, da er Arbeitnehmern einerseits nur ein Anhörungsrecht gibt, sich andererseits nicht auf Teilzeitarbeit beschränkt. Der Beitrag diskutiert die Sonderstellung des 'breiten, aber weichen' britischen Flexibilitätsansatzes. Empirische Daten zu den Wirkungen des Gesetzes werden vorgestellt. Sie zeigen, dass der britische Ansatz den Beschäftigten tatsächlich individuelle Flexibilitätsformen eröffnet hat. Die Frage, ob ein familienpolitisch motiviertes Flexibilitätsgesetz ein effektives Instrument der Gleichstellungspolitik sein kann, oder ob es Gefahr läuft, Geschlechterunterschiede zu verstärken, wird abschließend diskutiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Explaining the evolution of hours worked and employment across OECD countries: an equilibrium search approach (2008)
Langot, Francois; Quintero Rojas, Coralia;Zitatform
Langot, Francois & Coralia Quintero Rojas (2008): Explaining the evolution of hours worked and employment across OECD countries. An equilibrium search approach. (IZA discussion paper 3364), Bonn, 39 S.
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"Since 1960, the dynamics of the aggregate hours of market work exhibit dramatic differences across industrialized countries. Before 1980, these differences seem to come from the hours worked per employee (the intensive margin). However, since 1980 a notable feature of the data is that the divergence across countries responds to quantitatively important differences along the employment rate (the extensive margin). In this paper we develop an equilibrium matching model where both margins are endogenous. The model is rich enough to account for the behavior of the two margins of the aggregate hours when we include the observed heterogeneity across countries of both the taxes and the labor market institutions such as the unemployment benefits and the bargaining power. Because these findings come from on unified framework, they also give a strong support to the matching models." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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European vs. American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins (2008)
Langot, Francois; Quintero Rojas, Coralia;Zitatform
Langot, Francois & Coralia Quintero Rojas (2008): European vs. American hours worked. Assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins. (IZA discussion paper 3846), Bonn, 21 S.
Abstract
"Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the total-hours-gap between regions. Moreover, both ratios have similar weight. Conversely, the intensive margin, measured by the number of hours worked per employee, has the smallest role." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Children and women's hours of work (2008)
Paull, Gillian;Zitatform
Paull, Gillian (2008): Children and women's hours of work. In: The economic journal, Jg. 118, H. 526, S. F8-F27. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02114.x
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"The prevalence of women in part-time work continues to be a distinguishing feature of female employment in Britain. Using data from the BHPS, this article analyses the evolution of work hours for women and men during family formation and development. A substantial movement towards part-time work for women occurs with the first birth and continues steadily for ten years. The gender gap in hours subsequently diminishes but persists even after children have grown up. Births have little impact on men's hours, although there is some adjustment in the balance of work hours for couples following births and last school entry." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gender and nonstandard work hours in 12 European countries (2008)
Presser, Harriet B.; Gornick, Janet C.; Parashar, Sangeeta;Zitatform
Presser, Harriet B., Janet C. Gornick & Sangeeta Parashar (2008): Gender and nonstandard work hours in 12 European countries. In: Monthly labor review, Jg. 131, H. 2, S. 83-103.
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"Labor force surveys conducted in several European countries in 2005 indicate high levels of nonstandard work hours, varying by gender; by contrast, nonstandard work hours for both men and women vary little by whether they have or do not have children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Time and work-life balance: the roles of 'temporal customization' and 'life temporality' (2008)
Roberts, Emma;Zitatform
Roberts, Emma (2008): Time and work-life balance. The roles of 'temporal customization' and 'life temporality'. In: Gender, Work and Organization, Jg. 15, H. 5, S. 430-453.
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"This article poses a challenge to the orthodox binary, conceptualization of work-life balance only made possible by relying on the widespread 'clock time' worldview, which understands employment practices in terms of the basic time = money equation. In particular, it is the balance metaphor which relies on a quantification of both work and life in order to make sense and can therefore be seen to be based on an understanding of time as a measurable and value-able unit. This article seeks to begin the exercise of examining the concept of work-life balance through a broader concept of the temporal dimension than simply limited quantitative notions. Two temporal themes are reported from a study which identified employees who had customized their working pattern to suit the various and multi-dimensional facets of their lifestyles and thereby successfully improved their work-life balance. Participants in this study demonstrated that an improved work-life balance is more about a mind-set that refuses to be dominated by a work temporality and is determined to create 'me time' rather than e.g. simply choosing a four day week or a part-time job. It is argued that the notion of work-life balance is more usefully conceptualized within a broader notion of 'livingscapes' which contain both elements of work and life and that as researchers, our challenge must be to reflect the complexity of this weave within our analyses of individuals' work-life balance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Working unusual hours and its relatioship to job satisfaction: a study of European maritime pilots (2007)
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Andresen, Maike, Michel E. Domsch & Annett H. Carscorbi (2007): Working unusual hours and its relatioship to job satisfaction. A study of European maritime pilots. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 28, H. 4, S. 714-734. DOI:10.1007/s12122-007-9010-5
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"Our study focuses on maritime pilotage in seven European countries and analyzes the level of job satisfaction and its predictors. Like most existing studies in the field of job satisfaction, we show that job satisfaction is an outcome of the work of maritime pilots. Stressful working conditions, such as working unsocial hours and irregular working patterns, create strains that together with intervening factors related to work, family, or the work environment ultimately reduce job satisfaction. However, our results indicate that although negative physical and social consequences are important, they are neither the strongest nor the only variables determining job satisfaction. Another effect seems more important in European maritime pilotage: job satisfaction is instead a predictor of how much pressure and stress pilots can handle. Despite health problems and a reduction in their quality of life due to working unusual hours, most maritime pilots do not regret their choice of profession. Factors to ameliorate the working conditions are also identified. The most important parameters include alterations in working time systems, working conditions which minimize physical strain, fairness regarding payment, flexibility within the compensation system, an intensification of the possibilities for involvement and participation, an extended degree of co-determination, and the distribution of the ownership of the pilot stations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job changes and hours changes: understanding the path of labour supply adjustment (2007)
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Blundell, Richard, Mike Brewer & Marco Francesconi (2007): Job changes and hours changes. Understanding the path of labour supply adjustment. (IZA discussion paper 3044), Bonn, 40 S.
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"This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of small hours of work effects for two of such reforms. A third reform in 1999 instead led to a significant increase in single mothers' hours of work. The mechanism by which the labour supply adjustments were made occurred largely through job changes rather than hours changes with the same employer. These results are confirmed when we look at hours changes by stated labour supply preferences. Finally, we find little overall effect of the reforms on wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job satisfaction and family happiness: the part-time work puzzle (2007)
Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van;Zitatform
Booth, Alison L. & Jan C. van Ours (2007): Job satisfaction and family happiness. The part-time work puzzle. (ISER working paper 2007-20), Colchester, 39 S.
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"Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they work full-time without overtime hours but neither their job satisfaction nor their life satisfaction are affected by how many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether these are small or large. In contrast, female life satisfaction is virtually unaffected by hours of work. Women without children do not care about their hours of work at all, while women with children are significantly happier if they have a job regardless of how many hours it entails." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The contribution of hour constraints to working poverty in Britain (2007)
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Brown, Sarah, J. G. Sessions & Duncan Watson (2007): The contribution of hour constraints to working poverty in Britain. In: Journal of population economics, Jg. 20, H. 2, S. 445-463. DOI:10.1007/s00148-006-0086-7
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"We explore the implications of hours demand constraints on the propensity to experience poverty. Our analysis of British data suggests that whilst the extent of poverty increased over the period 1985-2001, its intensity, under some measures, declined. In terms of hours constraints, we find that even the most generous elimination of underemployment vis allowing workers to supply as many hours as they prefer (but not as few) without encountering any negative employment and/or hourly wage implications, leaves the poverty rate and poverty gap virtually unchanged." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Free to choose? Differences in the hours determination of constrained and unconstrained workers (2007)
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Bryan, Mark L. (2007): Free to choose? Differences in the hours determination of constrained and unconstrained workers. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 59, H. 2, S. 226-252. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpl033
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"In surveys, large minorities of individuals typically report that they would like to change their weekly working hours at their current hourly wage. If this evidence reflects genuine constraints on choice of hours, the determinants of hours should differ between constrained and unconstrained groups. Controlling for selection by an extension of the Heckman two-step method to ordered selection and panel data, and using a sample of manual men, I find that unconstrained workers' hours are determined differently from those of constrained workers. I present evidence that local labour market conditions affect the hours of constrained but not of unconstrained workers. I also correct for the potential bias resulting from the use of observed hours to derive the hourly wage, by instrumenting it with its lagged value. The combination of ignoring hours constraints and assuming the derived hourly wage is exogenous imparts a downward bias to wage elasticity estimates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Operating hours and working times: a survey of capacity utilisation and employment in the European Union (2007)
Delsen, Lei; Groß, Hermann; Cette, Gilbert ; Delsen, Kei; Bosworth, Derek; Sylvain, Arnaud; Munoz de Bustillo y Llorente, Rafael; Kocoglu, Yusuf; Bosworth, Derek; Lehndorff, Steffen; Castro, Alberto; Macias, Enrique Fernandez; Groß, Hermann; Schief, Sebastian; Caroll, Marilyn; Sieglein, Georg; Bauer, Frank; Smith, Mark; Varejao, Jose M.; Smits, Keroen;Zitatform
Delsen, Lei, Derek Bosworth, Hermann Groß & Rafael Munoz de Bustillo y Llorente (Hrsg.) (2007): Operating hours and working times. A survey of capacity utilisation and employment in the European Union. (Contributions to economics), Heidelberg u.a.: Physica-Verl., 251 S.
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Das Buch stellt die Ergebnisse des Projekts EUCOWE vor, einer repräsentativen Betriebsbefragung zur international vergleichenden Untersuchung von Betriebszeiten, Arbeitszeiten und Beschäftigung in Frankreich, Deutschland, den Niederlanden, Portugal, Spanien und Großbritannien. Bei dem Projekt handelt es sich um die erste repräsentative und standardisierte Befragung europäischer Unternehmen, die alle Betriebsgrößen und Wirtschaftszweige umfasst. Folgende Aspekte werden analysiert: Welche Betriebszeiten sind für die sechs Untersuchungsländer charakteristisch? Welche Unterschiede gibt es in Hinblick auf Wirtschaftszweige und Betriebsgrößen? Durch welche Formen der Arbeitszeitorganisation werden diese Betriebszeiten umgesetzt? Wie sieht das Verhältnis zwischen Betriebszeit und Beschäftigung aus? Das Buch stellt die umfassendste Studie zu Betriebszeiten, Kapazitätsauslastung, Arbeitszeit und Beschäftigung dar, die in der Europäischen Union verfügbar ist. (IAB)
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Work-life balance (2007)
Fleetwood, Steve; MacKenzie, Robert ; Perret, Rob; Lewis, Suzan; Tomlinson, Jennifer ; Fleetwood, Steve; Collins, Gráinne; Gambles, Richenda; Peters, Pascale; Gatrell, Caroline; Ransome, Paul; van der Lippe, Tanja; Rapoport, Rhona; Gardiner, Jean; Smithson, Janet; Forde, Chris; Stuart, Mark ; Greenwood, Ian; Sullivan, Cath;Zitatform
MacKenzie, Robert, Rob Perret, Suzan Lewis, Jennifer Tomlinson, Steve Fleetwood, Gráinne Collins, Richenda Gambles, Pascale Peters, Caroline Gatrell, Paul Ransome, Tanja van der Lippe, Rhona Rapoport, Jean Gardiner, Janet Smithson, Chris Forde, Mark Stuart, Ian Greenwood & Cath Sullivan, MacKenzie, Robert, Rob Perret, Suzan Lewis, Jennifer Tomlinson, Steve Fleetwood, Gráinne Collins, Richenda Gambles, Pascale Peters, Caroline Gatrell, Paul Ransome, Tanja van der Lippe, Rhona Rapoport, Jean Gardiner, Janet Smithson, Chris Forde, Mark Stuart, Ian Greenwood & Cath Sullivan (sonst. bet. Pers.) (2007): Work-life balance. In: The international journal of human resource management, Jg. 18, H. 3, S. 351-489.
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Die Beiträge des Sonderhefts zu 'Work-Life-Balance' beleuchten verschiedene Aspekte dieses Konzepts. Das Konzept der 'Work-Life-Balance' wird kritisch hinterfragt, und Annahmen, die ihm zugrunde liegen, sowie Probleme, die mit Work-Life-Balance-Diskursen und -Praktiken verbunden sind, werden herausgearbeitet. Die Reichweite und die Grenzen des Konzepts werden anhand empirischer Studien illustriert. Deren inhaltliche Schwerpunkte liegen auf Heim- und Telearbeit, auf dem Geschlechterverhältnis sowie auf dem Berufsausstieg älterer Arbeitnehmer. (IAB)
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Annual hours working in Britain (2007)
Gall, Gregor; Allsop, David;Zitatform
Gall, Gregor & David Allsop (2007): Annual hours working in Britain. In: Personnel Review, Jg. 36, H. 5, S. 800-814. DOI:10.1108/00483480710774052
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"This paper seeks to investigate the extent of the implementation of annual hours working in Britain and its impact upon employers, organisations and employees. The paper deploys secondary data and sources to establish an overview of the salient issues. Although there has been a growth in the extent of annual hours worked in the last decade, the rate of growth has slowed. This is related to the reduction in extant organisations that may consider introducing annual hours in tandem with the problems associated with annual hours worked. Issues of working time remain a key area of contestation between employers and employees, particularly as in recent years coercive competitive pressures on organisations have increased whilst a discourse about 'family-friendly' working time polices has also emerged. The plaudits of management consultants and policy groups concerning annual hours worked are revealed to be rather one-sided, with considerable problems emerging for employers and employees alike." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Third Work-Life Balance Employer Survey: main findings (2007)
Hayward, Bruce; Fong, Barry; Thornton, Alex;Zitatform
Hayward, Bruce, Barry Fong & Alex Thornton (2007): The Third Work-Life Balance Employer Survey. Main findings. (Employment relations research series 86), London, 206 S.
Abstract
"The Third Work-Life Balance Employer Survey found that the availability and take-up of work-life balance arrangements has increased since 2003, with two or more flexible working time arrangements being taken up by employees in over four in ten workplaces. The vast majority (92 per cent) of employers reported that they would consider a request to change a working pattern from any employee, despite legislation only requiring employers to do so for some employees. Amongst those employers where a request had been made in the previous 12 months, just nine per cent said they had turned down any requests. There has been an overall increase in employers who reported that managers actively promote flexible working, which is due to increases among workplaces with less than 250 employees. Employers continue to hold predominantly positive attitudes towards work-life balance and to perceive its benefits for employees and workplaces alike, although it is clear that most employers feel that the implementation of flexible working practices is not always easy, and should not be expected by employees where it would cause disruption to the business." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Third Work-Life Balance Employee Survey: main findings (2007)
Hooker, Hülya; Casebourne, Jo; Munro, Miranda; Neathey, Fiona;Zitatform
Hooker, Hülya, Fiona Neathey, Jo Casebourne & Miranda Munro (2007): The Third Work-Life Balance Employee Survey. Main findings. (Employment relations research series 58), London, 243 S.
Abstract
"The Third Work-Life Balance Employee Survey, conducted in early 2006, found high levels of employee satisfaction and a significant increase in the availability of most flexible working arrangements since 2003. In all, 87 per cent of employees said they were either satisfied or very satisfied with their current working arrangements - up from 81 per cent in 2003. Almost all employees (90 per cent) reported that at least one flexible working arrangement was available to them if they needed it - an increase from 85 per cent in 2003. The working arrangements most commonly available were part-time working, reduced hours for a limited period, and flexitime. The arrangements most commonly taken up by employees were flexitime, working from home, and part-time work. Unmet employee demand for all flexible working arrangements except term-time working has fallen since 2003. Employees were very positive about their own flexible working experience, and more positive than negative about the flexible working arrangements of colleagues. Seventeen per cent of employees had made a request to change their working arrangements over the last two years. The survey also found a high level of informal and short-term flexible working arrangements in British workplaces, with over half the workforce (56 per cent) saying that they had worked flexibly in the last 12 months. Two-thirds of working parents with young children were aware of their right to request flexible working. More than two-fifths of employees were aware that the Government intended to extend the right to request flexible working to carers of adults." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work/family balance policies in the UK since 1997: a new departure? (2007)
Lewis, Jane; Campbell, Mary;Zitatform
Lewis, Jane & Mary Campbell (2007): Work/family balance policies in the UK since 1997. A new departure? In: Journal of social policy, Jg. 36, H. 3, S. 365-381. DOI:10.1017/S0047279407001067
Abstract
"Three successive Labour governments have developed a range of work/family balance (WFB) policies, including child care services, leaves and flexible working hours, which have also become an increasingly coherent package. Drawing on Hall (1993), we explore the extent to which these represent a significant change at three levels: that of ideas (the goals of policy), mechanisms (the nature of the policy instruments), and settings (the fine-tuning of policy instruments). We examine how far the ideas driving the policy developments have been about the welfare of the family and its members, and the nature of the balance of continuity and change in policy instruments and settings, making some suggestions as to how this might be explained." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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- Forschung und Ergebnisse aus dem IAB
- Arbeitszeitpolitik
- Arbeitszeitentwicklung
- Arbeitszeit aus Sicht der Beschäftigten
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Arbeitszeitgestaltung
- flexible Arbeitszeitmodelle insgesamt
- gleitende Arbeitszeit
- Vertrauensarbeitszeit
- Arbeitszeitkonto
- Schichtmodelle, Wochenendarbeit
- Langzeiturlaub, Blockfreizeit
- Arbeit auf Abruf, KAPOVAZ
- Bereitschaftsdienst
- Job Sharing, Teilzeit, Altersteilzeit
- Telearbeit
- Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Kinderbetreuung, Elternzeit
- Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Pflege
- Alter
- Geschlecht
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