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December 2, 2024

Flextime policies help maintain productivity

When workers choose their own schedules, they tire less quickly, enabling longer, more productive work hours

  • flexible work practices
  • flextime
  • human resources management
  • labor productivity
  • work hours
  • work schedules
  • work-life balance
  • working from home
  • workplace flexibility
  • Jed DeVaro
Research

September 9, 2024

Employee Stock Ownership Plans boost job satisfaction in U.S. manufacturing sector

Study finds higher satisfaction with culture, leadership, and work-life balance in employee-owned firms

  • career
  • collective bargaining
  • culture
  • employee ownership
  • ESOP
  • job satisfaction
  • leadership
  • work-life balance
  • Adrianto Adrianto
  • Ainhoa Urtasun
  • Avner Ben-Ner
  • Jason Sockin
Research

April 22, 2021

Happy power couples?

Working in the same occupation or industry as your partner increases satisfaction with life, work and income

  • assortative matching
  • career
  • copreneurs
  • gender
  • relationship
  • well-being
  • work-life balance
  • work-linked couples
  • Clemens Hetschko
  • Juliane Hennecke
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December 19, 2019

Are women more willing to accept jobs with lower pay?

New research on quit behavior, job satisfaction, and job preferences

  • gender
  • job satisfaction
  • pay
  • preferences
  • public sector
  • quits
  • work-life balance
  • Christian Bredemeier
  • Paul Redmond
  • Pedro Maia Gomes
  • Seamus McGuinness
  • Zoë Kuehn
Research

January 17, 2019

Telework increases employees’ stress levels

Well-being effects differ between working from home and bringing work home from the office

  • happiness
  • home office
  • stress
  • subjective well-being
  • telework
  • work-life balance
  • Jia Gao
  • Younghwan Song
Research

October 27, 2017

Fertility and the digital divide: More flexibility, more children?

The rapid diffusion of the Internet, and in particular of high-speed, broadband Internet, has characterized the life-changing digital revolution that […]

  • broadband internet
  • digitalization
  • fertility
  • fertility digital divide
  • fertility rate
  • Internet
  • work-family balance
  • work-life balance
  • Francesco C. Billari
  • Luca Stella
  • Oliver Falck
  • Osea Giuntella
  • Robert Gold
  • Stephan Heblich
Research

April 26, 2016

Gender discrimination at work: What if your boss is a woman?

Despite the remarkable increase of female participation in education, the labor market and political life that has taken place over […]

  • active labor market policies
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender balance
  • gender discrimination
  • gender inequality
  • women
  • work-life balance
  • working hours
  • Claudio Lucifora
  • Daria Vigani

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