Arbeitspapier
Work hours constraints and health
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: FZID Discussion Paper ; No. 36-2011
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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work time
hours constraints
health, Germany
United Kingdom
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bell, David
Otterbach, Steffen
Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Universität Hohenheim, Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung (FZID)
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Stuttgart
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-6555
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bell, David
- Otterbach, Steffen
- Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
- Universität Hohenheim, Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung (FZID)
Entstanden
- 2011
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