Do working hours affect health? Evidence from statutory workweek regulations in Germany

Arbeitspapier

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an instrumental variable. Using panel data, we run two-stage least squares regressions controlling for individual-specific unobserved heterogeneity. We find adverse consequences of increasing working hours on subjective and several objective health measures. The effects are mainly driven by women and parents of minor children who generally face heavier constraints in organizing their workweek.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 967

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions
• Thema: working time ; health ; standard workweek ; Germany

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cygan-Rehm, Kamila ; Wunder, Christoph
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/179193
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ