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Reduction of Working Time in Austria. A Mixed Methods Study Relating a New Work Time Policy to Employee Preferences
This mixed-methods study examines factors determining employees‘ desire to reduce worktime. The results of a binary logit regression model, based on data from the Austrian Microcencus 2012, suggest that employees who prefer shorter weekly working hours are older, higher educated and work longer hours in white-collar positions, compared to those who do not wish to change their hours. Gender differences are greatest in terms of household and family characteristics, supporting the ‘male breadwinner & part-time’ model. Qualitative interviews have been conducted among employees who had the possibility to choose between a pay increase and equivalent leisure time via a new worktime policy (“Freizeitoption”) implemented in 2013. The results suggest that employees with higher education tend to reduce worktime. The fact that money is valued from a long-term, security perspective, as well as the tendency of assessing work performances by output indicators can be regarded as major obstacles for worktime reductions.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: WWWforEurope Working Paper ; No. 97
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation; Collective Bargaining
Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Public Policy
- Subject
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Working hours
working time preferences
working time reduction
working time policy
collective bargaining
mixed-methods
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Gerold, Stefanie
Nocker, Matthias
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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WWWforEurope
- (where)
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Vienna
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Gerold, Stefanie
- Nocker, Matthias
- WWWforEurope
Time of origin
- 2015
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