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References for Working hours: Past, present, and future
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Further reading
- Negrey, C. L. Work Time: Conflict, Control, and Change. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2012.
- Nyland, C. Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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Key references
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Faggio, G., Nickell, S. "Patterns of work
across the OECD." Economic
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Owen, R. Observations on
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Vernon, H. M. Industrial Fatigue
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Pencavel, J. "The productivity
of working hours." The Economic
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Dolton, P., Howorth, C., Abouaziza, M. The optimal length
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Barzel, Y. "The determination
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Rubin, M., Richardson, R. The Microeconomics
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Eurofund Work–Life Balance
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Prescott, E. C. "Why do American
work so much more than Europeans?" Federal Reserve
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Burda, M. C., Hamermesh, D. S., Weil, P. "The distribution
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White, M., Ghobadian, A. Shorter Working
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Aguiar, M., Hurst, E. "Measuring trends
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Autor, D. "Why are there
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automation." Journal of
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Faggio, G., Nickell, S. "Patterns of work
across the OECD." Economic
Journal 117:521 (2007): F416−F440.
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Additional References
- Bienefeld, M. Working Hours in British Industry: An Economic History. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.
- Cette, G., Chang, S., Konte, M. "The decreasing returns on working time: An empirical analysis on panel country data." Applied Economics Letters 18 (2011): 1677–1682.
- Contensou, F., Vranceanu, R. Working Time: Theory and Policy Implications. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000.
- Costa, D. "The wage and the length of the working day: From 1890s to 1991." Journal of Labor Economics 18:1 (2000): 156–181.
- Crépon, B., Kramarz, F. "Employed 40 hours or not employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 mandatory reduction of the workweek." Journal of Political Economy 110:6 (2002): 1355–1389.
- Gershuny, J. Changing Time: Work and Leisure in Post-industrial Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Gratton, L., Scott, A. The 100 Year Life. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Hart, R. Working Time and Employment. London: Routledge, 2010.
- Owen, J. D. Working Hours. Cambridge, MA: Lexington Books, 1979.
- Sangheon, L., McCann, D., Messenger, J. C. Working Time Around the World: Trends in Working Hours, Laws and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective. London: ILO/Routledge, 2007.
- Schor, J. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books, 1992.