Employment effects of longer working hours

Artikel

Standard hours, a major component of total work hours, vary considerably across Europe. Many countries lowered their standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker-hours among more workers. Germany has seen a partial reversal of the trend as several companies increased their standard hours to reduce their labor costs in the early 2000s. The employment effect of increased standard hours depends on the time horizon examined, how wages respond, whether employees collected overtime pay before the change, and the productivity of hours worked, among other factors.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2015 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions
• Subject: labor demand ; standard hours

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Schank, Thorsten
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.216
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125439
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET