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Working time flexibility components and working time regimes in Europe: using company-level data across 21 countries [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Human Resource Management, 2013
Working time ?exibility comprises a wide variety of arrangements, from part-time, overtime, to long-term leaves. Theoretical approaches to grouping these arrangements have been developed, but empirical underpinnings are rare. This article investigates
Heejung Chung, Kea Tijdens
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Time and Work

1997
Time is a key component in work, as it is in all aspects of human activity. The way time is experienced is fundamental to an individual’s overall experience of work. Having too much time to complete a task can slip easily into feelings of boredom. The sense of having too little time can be a major contributor to work-related stress.
Mike Noon, Paul Blyton
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Working Time and Work Organisation: Recent Trends in Working Time

Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting, 1999
The paper analyses the interrelation between working time and work organisation in Europe. This interrelation can be considered from the point of view of either employers or employees. For employers, it is becoming increasingly important today to adjust working time quickly to the order situation and to make intensive use of expensive plant and ...
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Players’ work time

2016
This book is a history of the British Musicians’ Union (MU) from its origins in 1893 to 2013. It uses the Union as a prism through which to examine changes in musicians’ working lives, the industries they work in and wider British society. It argues that musicians can best be considered as particular sorts of worker and that while the MU’s history has ...
Martin Cloonan, John Williamson
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Organisation of work and working times in IT

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2002
This article explores the organisation of work and working times in IT. It builds on case-studies in five European countries: Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and the UK. At first glance, the organisation of work and working time seems quite traditional: a full-time permanent contract is still the standard.
Plantenga, J., Remery, C.L.H.S.
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Market Timing Strategies That Worked [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Journal of Portfolio Management, 2003
In this paper, we present a few simple market-timing strategies that appear to outperform the "buy-and-hold" strategy, with real-time data from 1970 to 2000. Our focus is on spreads between the E/P ratio of the S&P 500 index and interest rates. Extremely low spreads, as compared to their historical ranges, appear to predict higher frequencies of ...
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Working time directive

Nursing Management, 2004
Help is at hand if you are still wrestling with the implications and implementation of the European working time directive. The NHSU has designed a programme for clinical teams in acute trusts that provide care at night.
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