Do reductions of standard hours affect employment transitions?: Evidence from Chile

Sánchez, Rafael

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2012.10.001

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“…As emphasised in the Jobs Strategy, very long working hours impair the quality of the work environment, which is a key dimension through which work affects wellbeing (OECD, 2018 [1]). They increase the risk of work accidents, negatively affect worker health, and decrease hourly worker productivity, by increasing stress and fatigue while reducing the time available for recovery (Bassanini and Caroli, 2015 [7]; Saint-Martin, Inanc and Prinz, 2018 [8]). 6 This suggests that the high rate of fatal work injuries and low productivity performance in Korea may be linked to the high incidence of very long working hours.…”

Section: Very Long Working Hours Compromise Worker Health Productivimentioning

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The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea: A preliminary assessment

Hijzen¹,

Thewissen²

2020

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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Section: Very Long Working Hours Compromise Worker Health Productivimentioning

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The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea: A preliminary assessment

Hijzen¹,

Thewissen²

2020

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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“…They found that small reductions in working hours resulted in small reductions in unemployment, whereas larger reduction of working hours resulted in increased unemployment. Sánchez (2013) wrote about the working hour reduction from 48 to 45 h per week implemented in Chile in 2005. He found that this reduction had no effect on unemployment.…”

Section: Working Hours In Other Scientific Literaturementioning

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On the scientific justification of the use of working hours, child labour and property rights in social life cycle assessment: three topical reviews

Arvidsson

Baumann

Hildenbrand

2014

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose Working hours, child labour and property rights have been suggested as topics to assess in social life cycle assessment (SLCA). The purpose of this study is to investigate the scientific justification of the current use of these topics. The long-term aim is to contribute to the future development of SLCA. Methods A literature review was conducted for each of the three topics. One thousand scientific articles were analysed for each topic, and relevant articles were selected. The articles were analysed based on whether the topics facilitated or obstructed beneficial social values, and whether they facilitated or obstructed adverse social values. Results and discussion The results show that the three topics both facilitate and obstruct beneficial social values. They also show that the topics both facilitate and obstruct adverse social values. Considering the complex and ambiguous nature of these topics reported in the scientific literature, the current use of these topics in the SLCA literature is found not to be completely scientifically justified. Conclusions Based on this study, the current use of working hours, child labour and property rights in SLCA studies should be questioned. We suggest that the fields of social science and economics may be fruitfully considered when seeking scientific justification for topics to assess in SLCA.

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“…Then we will investigate (more extensively, as it is our main goal) the indirect effect of the regulation on health. Thus, in order to study the effect of the regulation on working hours we estimate the following regression (as in Sánchez ):

H o u r s_{i t} = {italicβ}^{'} x_{i t} + {italicα}_{1}^{'} g_{1 i} + {italicα}_{2}^{'} g_{2 i} + {italicγ}^{'} d_{t} + {italicδ}_{1}^{'} g_{1 i} d_{t} + {italicδ}_{2}^{'} g_{2 i} d_{t} + {italicε}_{i t}

where Hours refers to weekly working hours for individual i at period t , x it is a vector of covariates and does not include a constant. g ki d t represents the interaction variable between the time dummy ( d t ) and the group dummy ( g ki ) where k=1,2 represents the control and treatment group, respectively.…”

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Does a Mandatory Reduction of Standard Working Hours Improve Employees' Health Status?

Sánchez

2016

Industrial Relations

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Most of the empirical evidence regarding the impact of reductions of standard working hours analyzes its effects on employment outcomes, family life balance, and social networks, but there is no empirical evidence of its effects on health outcomes. This study uses panel data for France and Portugal and exploits the exogenous variation of working hours coming from labor regulation and estimates its impact on health outcomes (from 39 to 35 hours a week and from 44 to 40 hours a week, respectively). Results suggest that the mandatory reduction of standard working hours decreased the working hours of treated individuals (and not the hours of individuals in the control group). Results also suggest that the fact of being treated generated a negative (positive) effect on young males’ (females’) health in France. No effects on health outcomes were found for Portugal.

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Do reductions of standard hours affect employment transitions?: Evidence from Chile

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea: A preliminary assessment

The 2018-2021 working time reform in Korea: A preliminary assessment

On the scientific justification of the use of working hours, child labour and property rights in social life cycle assessment: three topical reviews

Does a Mandatory Reduction of Standard Working Hours Improve Employees' Health Status?

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