Does labor legislation benefit workers? Well-being after an hours reduction

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin

doi:10.1016/j.jjie.2017.02.003

Cited by 28 publications

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“…For example, Knabe et al (2010) and Krueger and Mueller (2012) analyze the daily life structures of the unemployed and find that their time allocations are not chaotic. Hamermesh et al (2017) find that having reduced working hours increases SWB, a contradiction to the idea of work as utility.…”

Section: Unemployment and Swbcontrasting

confidence: 65%

A Pecuniary Explanation for the Heterogeneous Effects of Unemployment on Happiness

Luo

2019

J Happiness Stud

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Why unemployment has heterogeneous effects on subjective well-being remains a hot topic. Using German Socio-Economic Panel data, this paper finds significant heterogeneity using different material deprivation measures. Unemployed individuals who do not suffer from material deprivation may not experience a life satisfaction decrease and may even experience a life satisfaction increase. Policy implications for taxation and unemployment insurance are discussed.

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Section: Unemployment and Swbcontrasting

confidence: 65%

A Pecuniary Explanation for the Heterogeneous Effects of Unemployment on Happiness

Luo

2019

J Happiness Stud

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“…Our regression results, shown in Table A1 in the Appendix, indicate that prime‐age, lower and middle‐educated males work on average more often long hours, as also reported elsewhere in the literature (Hamermesh et al., 2017; Blundell et al., 2013). 20 Significance levels and treatment effect size remain very comparable without applying entropy balance weights (Table A2 in the Appendix).…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 86%

The limitations of overtime limits to reduce long working hours: Evidence from the 2018 to 2021 working time reform in Korea

Carcillo

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Thewissen

2023

Brit J Industrial Rel

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This article provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018–2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working‐hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the statutory limit on total weekly working hours from 68 to 52. We apply a difference‐in‐difference approach in which we take advantage of the stepwise implementation of the reform by firm size using individual‐level data. We present three main findings. First, the introduction of the 52‐h limit reduced but far from eliminated the incidence of working more than 52 h. Second, there is some evidence that the introduction led to a reallocation of working hours, with more employees shifting from working fulltime to working overtime within the new limit (41–52 h). Third, and more tentatively, this reallocation more likely took place within firms to account for fewer overtime hours worked by their employees, rather than within households to compensate for any income effects. Overall, our results show that a lower statutory limit can help to lessen a long working‐hour culture, but is an insufficient measure by itself to fully eradicate it.

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“…It increased the minimum wage by nearly 30% between 2018 and 2019 to around 60% of the median wage, around 10 percentage points above the average of OECD countries with a minimum wage. 32 While these substantial hourly wage increases lower the need for long working hours, potential negative effects on standard employment, (false) self-employment and informality that can come with a higher risk of very long hours should be closely monitored (OECD, 2018 [30]). Eligibility to the earned income tax credit (EITC) has been expanded considerably in 2019, although benefit levels remain relatively low (OECD, 2019 [28]).…”

Section: Combat In-work Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%