WORKING TIME IN AN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP

Working Time and Employment Under Uncertainty

The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of working time and examine the determinants of employment and hours in a stochastic framework. A numbe...

Non-standard Employment, Working Time Arrangements, Establishment Entry and Exit

This paper addresses the issue if and to what extent young firms differ from incumbents regarding the use of non-standard employment, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours in the light of the qualitative changes of employment structures that are taking place in industrialized countries, such as rising shares of non-standard employment and borders between work and private life...

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Globalization and the Employment Relationship: towards an Explanatory Framework

A number of concerns now cluster around the study of globalization in business. Attempts to theorise and explain the diverse phenomena associated with globalization have tended to concentrate on financial changes and global markets. In the HRM/IR field, these attempts leave out some of the central variables of the subject area: most notably the actors in the field, their behaviour and the resha...

Working times in atypical forms of employment: the special case of part-time work

In the present article, we attempt to devise a typology of forms of part-time employment by applying a widely used neuronal methodology called Kohonen maps. Starting out with data that we describe using category-specific variables, we show how it is possible to represent observations and the modalities of the variables that define them simultaneously, on a single map. This allows us to ascertai...