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Work Hours Constraints and Health

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Annals of Economics and Statistics

DOI: 10.2307/23646455

Authors: David N.F. Bell, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

Institutions: University of Stirling, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, University of Hohenheim

Language: English

Topic: Workplace Health and Well-being

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3121537992

FWCI: 6.243

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Cited by: 63

Related to: 10