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UNSPECIFIED (1997) Constraints on the desired hours of work of British men. ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 107 (441). pp. 520-535. ISSN 0013-0133
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This paper investigates constraints on desired hours of work using information on hours preferences from the British Household Panel Survey for 1991. Over a third of male manual workers would prefer to work fewer hours at the prevailing wage than they do and we estimate that on average desired hours per week are 4.3 lower than actual hours. We hypothesise that job insecurity and scarcity of alternative job opportunities enable employers to set hours constraints above employee preferences and find that the minimum hours constraints set by firms are an increasing function of the unemployment rate an individual faces.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Journal or Publication Title: | ECONOMIC JOURNAL |
| Publisher: | BLACKWELL PUBL LTD |
| ISSN: | 0013-0133 |
| Date: | March 1997 |
| Volume: | 107 |
| Number: | 441 |
| Number of Pages: | 16 |
| Page Range: | pp. 520-535 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/17914 |
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