How Many Hours Would You Want to Work a Week? Job Quality and the Omitted Variables Bias in Labour Supply Models: A Longitudinal Analysis of Working Time Preference Change

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Steiber
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Time Preference ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Preference Change ◽  
Omitted Variables

Flexible Despotism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Alex J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Flexible Scheduling ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Managerial Power

This introductory chapter provides an overview of flexible despotism. New economic processes are taking hold in the spaces opened up by the steady decline of collective workplace regulation. No longer is working time understood as a standard, stable eight hours, five days a week. Instead, working time is flexible, on demand, and 24/7. Consequently, many workers are increasingly employed flexibly, while others may not even have an employment contract at all, and instead be classified as self-employed—and yet have their labor controlled by a platform. Even workers with standard, full-time, permanent contracts can experience high levels of insecurity as a result of flexible scheduling within this new temporal order. As a result, the benefits and drawbacks of flexible scheduling have been widely debated. These discussions, however, have tended to focus on issues of job quality, work–life balance, and well-being. This book goes further, by drawing attention to important but under-researched issues of managerial power and workplace control. This is necessary, as it is only when one understands paid work as a power relationship that one is able to see how precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism—a new regime of control within the workplace.

Does time preference change with age?

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Bishai
Keyword(s):  
Time Preference ◽  
Preference Change

Penalty Rates and Labour Supply: Employee Attitudes to Non-Standard Hours of Work

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dawkins ◽  
Campbell Rungie ◽  
Judith Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Labour Supply ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Labour Demand ◽  
Employment Creation ◽  
Rigid Structure ◽  
Hours Of Work

This paper considers the supply of labour to non-standard hours of work. If penalty rates for such hours of work were reduced, any potential employment creation due to increased labour demand would depend in part on the labour supply response. We consider the rationale for penalty rates, changes in the labour force and in the length of working hours, and evidence on employee attitudes (including in-depth discussion groups that we have organized). It is concluded that changes since the introduction of penalty rates and the heterogeneity of employee preferences make the rigid structure of penalty rates inappropriate. Appropriate patterns of working time and associated compensation vary substantially among industries and occupations.

scholarly journals The determinants of skills use and work pressure: A longitudinal analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 730-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Felstead ◽  
Duncan Gallie ◽  
Francis Green ◽  
Golo Henseke
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Employee Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Skills Use ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Insight Into

Employers, workers and governments all have a stake in improving intrinsic job quality since it can help to raise worker well-being and lower the social costs of ill-health. This article provides a unique insight into factors triggering changes to two key aspects of intrinsic job quality – the skills used and developed at work, and the pressures under which work is carried out. Using a rare two-wave panel dataset, the article assesses whether three predicted determinants – namely employee involvement, teamworking and computerisation – are good or bad for these aspects of intrinsic job quality.

scholarly journals Conspicuous work: Peer working time, labour supply, and happiness

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Collewet ◽  
Andries de Grip ◽  
Jaap de Koning
Keyword(s):  
Labour Supply ◽  
Working Time
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