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- Bonke, Jens & Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise (2014): Are working hour preferences satisfied?
Several European studies show that there are more people in employment who wished that they worked fewer hours than there are people who wished that they worked more hours. The question addressed here is whether imbalanced working hours – working hour tension – influences changes in hours worked: do preferences become reality? On the basis of a Danish longitudinal time-use study, we find that more Danes prefer shorter working hours than longer working hours, which is in contrast to US employees. Moreover, not only do the vast majority of over-employed Danes adjust their working hours, those who are under-employed also do so within a decade.
RePEc:hhs:jdaecn:0031 Save to MyIDEAS - Rieko Nagamachi (2015): The Consistency of Japan fs Statistics on Working Hours, and an Analysis of Household Working Hours
This study examines the consistency of Japan fs statistics on working hours and investigates changes in and the structure of working hours since the late 1980s, from the perspective of household labor supply. ... First, as a result of comparisons among various sets of governmental statistics on working hours, we found that although there was consistency within household-side statistics and within employer-side statistics, there were some differences between the two sets of statistics, particularly with regard to male respondents. Second, analysis using micro data from the Labour Force Survey showed that between 1986 and 2013, there was no change in the average weekly working hours of either husbands or wives in married-couple households, but this was a significant change in the labor supply structure of wives.The employment rate of married women generally increased, and the number of households with a full-time homeworker declined, but an increase in the number of wives with short working hours curbed an increase in wives f working hours.Third, regarding wives f decisions to work, Douglas -Arisawa's Law- which refers to a negative correlation between husbands f income levels and wives f employment rates -was found to be strongly evident. We also found that in child-rearing households, the tendency of number of husbands f working hours having a constraining effect on wives f labor supply had increased in recent years. ... Therefore, it is necessary to include in household surveys question items that shed light on household working arrangements, such as the main work-time periods and number of paid working hours.
RePEc:mof:journl:ppr030f Save to MyIDEAS - Stefanie Hoherz & Mark Bryan (2020): British Men’s Work Hours and Work Hour Preferences after the Birth of a Child
This study uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to analyse the effect of fatherhood on men’s work hours and work hour preferences. Past research indicates that British men follow the traditional male provider model by either not changing or increasing their working hours when they have fathered a child, but these previous findings are primarily based on descriptive or cross-sectional analyses. Longitudinal analysis of men in the UK (1991 to 2013) shows a significant positive effect of fatherhood on men’s work hours. ... If the female partner is employed (especially part time) fatherhood leads the male partner to reduce his work hours. Analysis of men’s work hour preferences did not find significant links with the number and age of children.
RePEc:sae:woemps:v:34:y:2020:i:2:p:193-210 Save to MyIDEAS - Inés Berniell & Jan Bietenbeck (2017): The Effect of Working Hours on Health
Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. ... Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a positive effect of working hours on smoking and a negative effect on self-reported health.
RePEc:duh:wpaper:1703 Save to MyIDEAS - Berniell, Inés & Bietenbeck, Jan (2017): The Effect of Working Hours on Health
Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. ... Difference-in-differences and lagged dependent variable regressions reveal a negative effect of working hours on self-reported health and positive effects on smoking and body mass index, though the latter is imprecisely estimated.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10524 Save to MyIDEAS - Collewet, Marion & Sauermann, Jan (2017): Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to estimate the effect of working hours on productivity. We find that as the number of hours worked increases, the average handling time for a call increases, meaning that agents become less productive.
RePEc:hhs:sofiwp:2017_003 Save to MyIDEAS - Collewet, Marion & Sauermann, Jan (2017): Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to estimate the effect of working hours on productivity. We find that as the number of hours worked increases, the average handling time for a call increases, meaning that agents become less productive.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10722 Save to MyIDEAS - Collewet, Marion & Sauermann, Jan (2017): Working hours and productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to estimate the effect of working hours on productivity. We find that as the number of hours worked increases, the average handling time for a call increases, meaning that agents become less productive.
RePEc:eee:labeco:v:47:y:2017:i:c:p:96-106 Save to MyIDEAS - Pencavel, John H. (2014): The Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. ... The findings also link up with current research on the effects of long working hours on accidents and injuries.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp8129 Save to MyIDEAS - Drago, Robert & Black, David & Wooden, Mark (2005): The Existence and Persistence of Long Work Hours
Previous research hypothesizes that long working hours are related to consumerism, the ideal worker norm, high levels of human capital, and a high cost-of-job-loss. The authors test these hypotheses using panel data on working hours for an Australian sample of full-time employed workers. Analyses include a static cross-sectional model and a persistence model for long hours over time. The results suggest that long hours (50 or more hours in a usual week) are often persistent, and provide strongest support for the consumerism hypothesis, with some support for the ideal worker norm and human capital hypotheses, and no support for the cost-of-job-loss hypothesis. Other results are consistent with a backward-bending supply of long hours, and with multiple job holders and the self-employed working long hours.
RePEc:iza:izadps:dp1720 Save to MyIDEAS