Working time flexibility across Europe: a typology using firm‐level data

Kerkhofs, Marcel; Chung, Heejung; Ester, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2338.2008.00506.x

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“…“Context” can refer not only to workers' and employers' characteristics but also to the circumstances that motivated the use of atypical schedules. A distinction between employer‐ and worker‐oriented solutions is the prevailing and well‐established approach to the analysis of outcomes of working time organisation (Chung & Tijdens, ; Kerkhofs, Chung, & Ester, ; O'Reilly, ; Rubery & Grimshaw, ).…”

Section: Relationship Between Working Time Organisation and Work Intementioning

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Scheduled to work hard: The relationship between non‐standard working hours and work intensity among European workers (2005–2015)

Piasna

2017

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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Work intensity is of central importance for organisational performance, as well as workers' health and well‐being, yet its determinants at the workplace‐level remain underresearched. This article addresses this gap by examining consequences of working time adjustments for work intensity and the role of control over scheduling in influencing when working time adjustments have stronger effect on work intensity. Working hours are analysed on three dimensions: duration, distribution and flexibility. Analysis uses the European Working Conditions Survey (2005–2015) and a sample of employees from EU28 countries. Findings reveal that work intensity is closely related to the timing of work. Working long days or weeks, at night, on weekends, and with changes in hours imposed by employers is associated with more intense work. Moreover, the impact of non‐standard hours on work intensity differs depending on who (workers or employers) has control over their scheduling.

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Section: Relationship Between Working Time Organisation and Work Intementioning

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Scheduled to work hard: The relationship between non‐standard working hours and work intensity among European workers (2005–2015)

Piasna

2017

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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“…In particular, referring to Table 4, we define the baseline extensive and intensive elasticities as 0.3 and 0.1, respectively. Then we differentiate elasticities for each country by referring to a relative index of workeroriented labour market flexibility (Kerkhofs et al 2008;Chung 2012). 5 We take the average value of the flexibility index for the workers, and calculate the relative flexibility of each country's labour market.…”

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Optimal Taxation, Social Preferences and the Four Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in Europe

2014

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Drawing on the formal setting of optimal taxation theory, this paper identifies the degree of Rawlsianism (poverty aversion) exhibited by European social planners, beginning with the observation of actual data and redistribution systems. The paper contributes to the comparative research on the structure and typology of welfare capitalism. The social preferences implicit in tax‐benefit systems are recovered by inverting the optimal taxation model for all European countries using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions data. The results are discussed in light of the four worlds of welfare capitalism classification proposed by Esping‐Andersen.

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“…Or, sous l'influence d'une flexibilisation croissante des organisations productives, les conditions temporelles d'emploi se transforment en accentuant des formes de contraintes temporelles a priori défavorables à la conciliation : les horaires deviennent plus atypiques, plus fragmentés, moins prévisibles, parfois plus longs. Kerkhofs, Chung et Ester (2008) montrent ainsi qu'en Europe, la France a le pourcentage le plus élevé d'entreprises développant des arrangements de temps de travail hautement flexibles et orientés vers les besoins de la firme. Cette évolution a pu être accélérée par des politiques de l'emploi visant principalement à réduire le taux de chômage au prix d'une détérioration de la qualité de certains emplois.…”

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Concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle en France : les disparités d’horaires de travail

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2012

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La France se caractérise aujourd’hui par une forte proportion de salariés ayant des contraintes familiales et par un nombre élevé d’entreprises qui flexibilisent la durée et les horaires de travail : comment la diffusion de ces nouvelles contraintes temporelles affectent-elles les femmes, et plus particulièrement les mères ? Une typologie des conditions temporelles d’emploi des salariés français intégrant la durée du travail, la souplesse horaire dont bénéficie le salarié et la « localisation » de son temps de travail, construite à partir de l’enquête « Familles et employeurs » (Ined-Insee, 2004-2005), fait apparaître une surreprésentation des femmes dans les emplois les plus souples, mais aussi les plus contraignants temporellement, alors que l’effet de la présence d’enfant semble assez mineur.Trois hypothèses sont testées pour expliquer les conditions temporelles d’emploi : la préférence des salariés pour des horaires de travail commodes, les caractéristiques productives des emplois et le rapport de force salarié-employeur. Les résultats montrent que le fait d’avoir de jeunes enfants n’est pas corrélé aux conditions temporelles d’emploi. Être une femme accroît la probabilité d’avoir des horaires hyper-souples (plutôt que standards contraints) et diminue la probabilité d’avoir des horaires longs souples et non standards contraints. L’hypothèse d’une sélection en fonction des préférences n’est pas confirmée par l’analyse alors que les exigences productives des emplois et des employeurs ainsi que le pouvoir de négociation des salariés exercent des effets significatifs et expliquent la surreprésentation des femmes dans les horaires fragmentés contraints.In France, labour market flexibility continues to be one of the key issues in labour market reform. These changes occur in a labour market characterized by a high level of mothers’ participation rate. Flexibility based on working time and work schedules could result in a worsening of work-life balance conditions. How do women, and mothers, cope with these new temporal constraints? Do they manage to get family-friendly working time arrangements? This paper uses the first French survey on work-life balance (“Families and Employers”) to develop a typology of working time arrangements. The classification is based on a set of variables describing the duration and the scheduling of work with special attention given to the employee’s access to flexibility. The results show that women are over-represented in the most flexible category, but also in the least flexible category. Children have apparently no effect.The paper tests three explanations of why working time arrangements could differ by gender: preferences for convenient work schedules, production constraints specific to occupations and/or industries, and bargaining power of workers. Being a woman increases the likelihood of having a “super-flexible” work schedule and decreases the probability of having “shifted-inflexible” or “long-flexible” schedules. Preferences for convenient schedules turn out to play no role whi...

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Working time flexibility across Europe: a typology using firm‐level data

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

Scheduled to work hard: The relationship between non‐standard working hours and work intensity among European workers (2005–2015)

Scheduled to work hard: The relationship between non‐standard working hours and work intensity among European workers (2005–2015)

Optimal Taxation, Social Preferences and the Four Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in Europe

Concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle en France : les disparités d’horaires de travail

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