22nd International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time: Challenges and solutions for healthy working hours

21st International symposium on shiftwork and working time: the 24/7 society--from chronobiology to practical life.

Some significant changes have taken place in the global economy in recent decades impacting dramatically on the organization of work. The so-called ‘‘productive restructuring’’ has come with a growth of precarious work, work intensification, reduction in employment rates, flexibility of working times and off-hours not necessarily favorable to the wellbeing of workers. The global economic adjust...

22nd International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2015)

22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems

Systems that communicate through networks are ubiquitous in this day and age. The complexity of such systems is continuously increasing as a result of the decreasing cost of communication (with the prevalence of the internet for example) and the growing number of smart devices used for monitoring and actuation. There is also, on the other hand, an increasing need to take the different privacy a...

Long working hours and overweight and obesity in working adults

BACKGROUND Previous studies have identified a link between gender and the various risk factors associated with obesity. We examined obesity risk factors in working adults to identify the effects of differences in body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) between women and men. METHODS A total of 1,120 adults agreed to participate in the study. Data from 711 participants, including 4...

Taxes, Wages and Working Hours

Taxes, Wages and Working Hours This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant but relatively small net-of-tax rate elasticities. The results vary with family type, with the largest elasticities obtained for single males and ...