Adequate working hours and skill earning

Long working hours and health.

OBJECTIVES This article examines associations between long working hours, depression and changes in selected health behaviours. Based on an analysis of people followed over a two-year period, the relationship between changes in work hours and changes in health behaviours is explored. DATA SOURCE The data are from the household longitudinal component of the 1994/95 and 1996/97 cycles of the Na...

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 ...

Extended working hours and health.

Statistical analyses of the relation between the amount of working hours and impairments to health, based on data from a European survey on working conditions in 2000, clearly reveal that there is a substantial correlation between the number of working hours per week and the frequencies of health complaints. This applies to both musculo-skeletal disorders as well as to psycho-vegetative complai...

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...

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