Work Hours Constraints and Health

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 424

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health: General ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• Thema: Work time ; hours constraints ; health ; Germany ; United Kingdom ; Arbeitszeit ; Überbeschäftigung ; Gesundheit ; Wahrnehmung ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bell, David ; Otterbach, Steffen ; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/150969
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ