Brendan Burchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 277383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Burchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Burchell |
| SIGNATURE | BURCHELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8243-937X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work
The ‘gig economy’ encompasses a wide range of jobs, platforms and workers. In this article, we provide the first quantitative evidence in support of the model of job quality developed by Wood et al. that predicts divergence across local and remote platform work. Specifically, we find that remote platform work entails significantly better pay, more flexibility, greater influence over how to do the job, a greater sense of doing useful work, better …
How the four-day working week could affect health
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers' Mental Health at the Onset of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
Although reduced working time and furlough policy initiatives are widely regarded as important for economic and business reasons, little is known about their impacts on workers' mental health at the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Panel Study data from 2018 to February 2020 and April 2020 and change score analysis, this study aims to compare mental health changes between those who worked reduced hours, we…
Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being
Urban public space has been associated with increased physical activity, social interaction, neighbourhood cohesion and subjective well-being. Yet, the vast majority of literature focuses on green and blue space, excluding the potential therapeutic value of “hard-surfaced” public space, such as a civic or market square. Therefore, for the first time in the public space literature, we quantify hard-surfaced public space's variation across a major …
Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: Why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing
Alienation Is Not 'Bullshit: An Empirical Critique of Graeber's Theory of BS Jobs
David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs theory' has generated a great deal of academic and public interest. This theory holds that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value. Despite generating clear testable hypotheses, this theory is not based on robust empirical research. We, therefore, use representative data from the EU to test five of its core hypothese…
Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working
Existing urban research has focused on gender differences in commuting patterns to and from homes, but has paid little attention to the gendered diversity in the spatiotemporal patterns of work. The increase in remote working and information and communications technology (ICT) work has been emphasised, but at the cost of exploring the full range of workplaces and multi-locational working observed in urban areas. This article develops a new classi…
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
This article makes a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of why people in the United Kingdom without childcare responsibilities actively reduce or limit the amount of time they spend in paid employment. We show how the negative aspects of employment (push factors) and the desire to spend time in more varied and enjoyable ways (pull factors) interact to produce decisions to enact working time reductions (WTRs). The push factors…
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom
Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), which form important components of employment support policies around the world, have been found to improve mental health and wellbeing of participants. However, it remains unclear how these health effects compare with the effects of different types of employment for men and women. Using 1991-2019 panel data in the UK, we find that unemployed women derive similar mental health benefits from ALMPs compared …
The Experience of Self-Employment Among Young People: An Exploratory Analysis of 28 Low- to Middle-Income Countries
Youth unemployment has become the global "wicked" policy issue for governments and multilateral agencies with many regions experiencing endemically high levels. In response, governments and international organizations have introduced more active labor market interventions to address youth unemployment. Self-employment and entrepreneurship programs are seen as the key mechanisms to reduce unemployment, welfare dependency, and poverty. We use the I…
A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being
A cross-national comparative study of work demands/support, work-to-family conflict and job outcomes: Ghana versus the United Kingdom
This study compared relations between work demands and support, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and job outcomes in Ghana and the United Kingdom. Data were obtained from 217 Ghanaian employees and 198 British employees using structured questionnaires. Results from multigroup structural equation modelling analyses showed that job pressure was positively related to WFC in Ghana and the United Kingdom, whereas supervisor support was negatively related…
Equal Pay as a Moving Target: International perspectives on forty-years of addressing the gender pay gap
This paper provides an overview of the key factors impacting upon the gender pay gap in the UK, Europe and Australia. Forty years after the implementation of the first equal pay legislation, the pay gap remains a key aspect of the inequalities women face in the labour market. While the overall pay gap has tended to fall in many countries over the past forty years, it has not closed; in some countries it has been stubbornly resistant, or has even …
Human Development and Decent Work: Why some Concepts Succeed and Others Fail to Make an Impact
This article examines the impact of the International Labour Organization's concept of Decent Work on development thinking and the academic literature. We attempt to answer the question of what makes a development initiative successful by comparing the decent work approach to the United Nation Development Programme's Human Development concept (in conjunction with the human development indicator). We consider that the latter has been one of the mo…
The quality of employment and decent work: Definitions, methodologies, and ongoing debates
This article explores the development of concepts related to the ‘quality of employment’ in the academic literature in terms of their definition, methodological progress and ongoing policy debates. Over time, these concepts have evolved from simple studies of job satisfaction towards more comprehensive measures of job and employment quality, including the International Labour Organization’s concept of ‘Decent Work’ launched in 1999. This article …
The role of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion in occupational gender segregation: A Cross-National Analysis
Studies have linked cross-national variations in occupational gender segregation with various economic, social and normative characteristics of countries. This study contributes to the research on the role of normative or 'cultural' characteristics by examining the influence of the level of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion on cross-national variations in occupational gender segregation. The analysis is based on a sam…
A Temporal Comparison of the Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on Wellbeing
Analyses of individuals' working lives make a variety of assumptions about the relationship between time, wellbeing and economic stress. Some assume that stress will accumulate in adverse environments, leading to chronic effects of, for instance, long-term unemployment or job insecurity. Other studies emphasize the acute effects of changes per se, and assume adaptation. This paper examines how employees respond both to acute and chronic job insec…
Flexicurity as a moderator of the relationship between job insecurity and psychological well-being
Flexicurity has been heralded as the solution to simultaneously maintain the well-being of employees through employment security while allowing employers to benefit from flexibility. This paper examines one of the claimed benefits that countries with flexicurity policies will reduce the stress on employees who experience job insecurity. More specifically, it is argued that more generous unemployment benefits along with active labour market polici…
Distributed work: Communication in an ‘officeless firm’
This paper describes and analyses an ‘officeless firm’, where all employees work from their own homes. Drawing upon observations and interviews, the modes of communication and the nature of the interpersonal relationships that have permitted this organisation to succeed are described, along with the challenges that face this organisation in the future as it attempts to grow
Anglais, encore un effort: L'intensité du travail au Royaume-Uni
Dans sa première partie cet article analyse les essais de quantification des changements dans l'intensification du travail au Royaume-Uni au cours des 40 dernières années. L'auteur passe en revue un certain nombre de méthodologies, cet examen critique mène à la conclusion que les résultats les plus fiables reposent sur des observations transversales et répétées. Ce qui en ressort est une augmentation nettement marquée de l'intensité du travail au…
Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance
Frank Wilkinson’s classic piece on ‘Productive Systems’ opens with a warning against the ‘increasingly dogmatic reassertion by a growing proportion of economists of the beneficial effects of the invisible hand of market forces’. These reassertions, Wilkinson argues, ‘are based not on a careful examination of how economies actually work and have developed but on abstract, a priori reasoning about how they should operate’ (Wilkinson, 1983, p. 413).…
Socioeconomic and Political Initiators of Pay Comparison
Gender Segregation, Size of Workplace and the Public Sector
Gender segregation is considered to be a key structuring factor in the labour market, and is central to explanations of phenomena as diverse as the everyday experience of men’s and women’s employment to the underachievement of women and the limited impact of equal pay legislation. Studies of occupational segregation by gender tend to be polarized between qualitative and quantitative extremes. At the quantitative end, a primary focus of research h…
Gender Segregation, Size of Workplace and the Public Sector
Gender segregation is considered to be a key structuring factor in the labour market, and is central to explanations of phenomena as diverse as the everyday experience of men's and women's employment to the underachievement of women and the limited impact of equal pay legislation. Studies of occupational segregation by gender tend to be polarized between qualitative and quantitative extremes. At the quantitative end, a primary focus of research h…
A New Way of Analyzing Labour Market Flows Using Work History Data
The methodological component of this paper describes a novel way of analyzing work-history data, treating the job change as the unit of analysis rather than the individual or the job. After considering the theoretical and practical problems and advantages of such an approach, two examples are given of the ways in which this technique can be used in the investigation of macro-level and micro-level labour market phenomena concerning the way in whic…
A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being
Alienation Is Not 'Bullshit: An Empirical Critique of Graeber's Theory of BS Jobs
David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs theory' has generated a great deal of academic and public interest. This theory holds that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value. Despite generating clear testable hypotheses, this theory is not based on robust empirical research. We, therefore, use representative data from the EU to test five of its core hypothese…
A New Way of Analyzing Labour Market Flows Using Work History Data
The methodological component of this paper describes a novel way of analyzing work-history data, treating the job change as the unit of analysis rather than the individual or the job. After considering the theoretical and practical problems and advantages of such an approach, two examples are given of the ways in which this technique can be used in the investigation of macro-level and micro-level labour market phenomena concerning the way in whic…
Gender and Skills
A survey of a random sample of over 600 employed adults in the Northampton area is used to compare men's and women's perceptions of the content of their jobs and to construct an index of skill. Differences were found between men and women in perceptions of both the types of skills required in their jobs, with women emphasising personal and social skills, and in the level of skill involved. Men's jobs on average appeared to be higher skilled, but …
A Temporal Comparison of the Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on Wellbeing
Analyses of individuals' working lives make a variety of assumptions about the relationship between time, wellbeing and economic stress. Some assume that stress will accumulate in adverse environments, leading to chronic effects of, for instance, long-term unemployment or job insecurity. Other studies emphasize the acute effects of changes per se, and assume adaptation. This paper examines how employees respond both to acute and chronic job insec…
An Empirical Investigation into the Segmentation of the Labour Supply
This paper explores the empirical evidence for segmentation in the labour supply using survey data from a local labour market. Employees were clustered using variables relating to their work histories, current job attributes, employment expectations and personal attributes. Five clusters of employees were identified, which differed markedly in their past, present and expected future labour market behaviour. The main theoretical tenets of segmenta…
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom
Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), which form important components of employment support policies around the world, have been found to improve mental health and wellbeing of participants. However, it remains unclear how these health effects compare with the effects of different types of employment for men and women. Using 1991-2019 panel data in the UK, we find that unemployed women derive similar mental health benefits from ALMPs compared …
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
This article makes a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of why people in the United Kingdom without childcare responsibilities actively reduce or limit the amount of time they spend in paid employment. We show how the negative aspects of employment (push factors) and the desire to spend time in more varied and enjoyable ways (pull factors) interact to produce decisions to enact working time reductions (WTRs). The push factors…
Human Development and Decent Work: Why some Concepts Succeed and Others Fail to Make an Impact
This article examines the impact of the International Labour Organization's concept of Decent Work on development thinking and the academic literature. We attempt to answer the question of what makes a development initiative successful by comparing the decent work approach to the United Nation Development Programme's Human Development concept (in conjunction with the human development indicator). We consider that the latter has been one of the mo…
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers' Mental Health at the Onset of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
Although reduced working time and furlough policy initiatives are widely regarded as important for economic and business reasons, little is known about their impacts on workers' mental health at the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Panel Study data from 2018 to February 2020 and April 2020 and change score analysis, this study aims to compare mental health changes between those who worked reduced hours, we…
Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being
Urban public space has been associated with increased physical activity, social interaction, neighbourhood cohesion and subjective well-being. Yet, the vast majority of literature focuses on green and blue space, excluding the potential therapeutic value of “hard-surfaced” public space, such as a civic or market square. Therefore, for the first time in the public space literature, we quantify hard-surfaced public space's variation across a major …
Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working
Existing urban research has focused on gender differences in commuting patterns to and from homes, but has paid little attention to the gendered diversity in the spatiotemporal patterns of work. The increase in remote working and information and communications technology (ICT) work has been emphasised, but at the cost of exploring the full range of workplaces and multi-locational working observed in urban areas. This article develops a new classi…
Distributed work: Communication in an ‘officeless firm’
This paper describes and analyses an ‘officeless firm’, where all employees work from their own homes. Drawing upon observations and interviews, the modes of communication and the nature of the interpersonal relationships that have permitted this organisation to succeed are described, along with the challenges that face this organisation in the future as it attempts to grow
Socioeconomic and Political Initiators of Pay Comparison
Gender Segregation, Size of Workplace and the Public Sector
Gender segregation is considered to be a key structuring factor in the labour market, and is central to explanations of phenomena as diverse as the everyday experience of men's and women's employment to the underachievement of women and the limited impact of equal pay legislation. Studies of occupational segregation by gender tend to be polarized between qualitative and quantitative extremes. At the quantitative end, a primary focus of research h…
The role of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion in occupational gender segregation: A Cross-National Analysis
Studies have linked cross-national variations in occupational gender segregation with various economic, social and normative characteristics of countries. This study contributes to the research on the role of normative or 'cultural' characteristics by examining the influence of the level of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion on cross-national variations in occupational gender segregation. The analysis is based on a sam…
Flexicurity as a moderator of the relationship between job insecurity and psychological well-being
Flexicurity has been heralded as the solution to simultaneously maintain the well-being of employees through employment security while allowing employers to benefit from flexibility. This paper examines one of the claimed benefits that countries with flexicurity policies will reduce the stress on employees who experience job insecurity. More specifically, it is argued that more generous unemployment benefits along with active labour market polici…
Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: Why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing
A cross-national comparative study of work demands/support, work-to-family conflict and job outcomes: Ghana versus the United Kingdom
This study compared relations between work demands and support, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and job outcomes in Ghana and the United Kingdom. Data were obtained from 217 Ghanaian employees and 198 British employees using structured questionnaires. Results from multigroup structural equation modelling analyses showed that job pressure was positively related to WFC in Ghana and the United Kingdom, whereas supervisor support was negatively related…
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work
The ‘gig economy’ encompasses a wide range of jobs, platforms and workers. In this article, we provide the first quantitative evidence in support of the model of job quality developed by Wood et al. that predicts divergence across local and remote platform work. Specifically, we find that remote platform work entails significantly better pay, more flexibility, greater influence over how to do the job, a greater sense of doing useful work, better …
The Experience of Self-Employment Among Young People: An Exploratory Analysis of 28 Low- to Middle-Income Countries
Youth unemployment has become the global "wicked" policy issue for governments and multilateral agencies with many regions experiencing endemically high levels. In response, governments and international organizations have introduced more active labor market interventions to address youth unemployment. Self-employment and entrepreneurship programs are seen as the key mechanisms to reduce unemployment, welfare dependency, and poverty. We use the I…
An Empirical Investigation into the Segmentation of the Labour Supply
This paper explores the empirical evidence for segmentation in the labour supply using survey data from a local labour market. Employees were clustered using variables relating to their work histories, current job attributes, employment expectations and personal attributes. Five clusters of employees were identified, which differed markedly in their past, present and expected future labour market behaviour. The main theoretical tenets of segmenta…
Gender and Skills
A survey of a random sample of over 600 employed adults in the Northampton area is used to compare men's and women's perceptions of the content of their jobs and to construct an index of skill. Differences were found between men and women in perceptions of both the types of skills required in their jobs, with women emphasising personal and social skills, and in the level of skill involved. Men's jobs on average appeared to be higher skilled, but …
A New Way of Analyzing Labour Market Flows Using Work History Data
The methodological component of this paper describes a novel way of analyzing work-history data, treating the job change as the unit of analysis rather than the individual or the job. After considering the theoretical and practical problems and advantages of such an approach, two examples are given of the ways in which this technique can be used in the investigation of macro-level and micro-level labour market phenomena concerning the way in whic…
Gender Segregation, Size of Workplace and the Public Sector
Gender segregation is considered to be a key structuring factor in the labour market, and is central to explanations of phenomena as diverse as the everyday experience of men’s and women’s employment to the underachievement of women and the limited impact of equal pay legislation. Studies of occupational segregation by gender tend to be polarized between qualitative and quantitative extremes. At the quantitative end, a primary focus of research h…
Gender Segregation, Size of Workplace and the Public Sector
Gender segregation is considered to be a key structuring factor in the labour market, and is central to explanations of phenomena as diverse as the everyday experience of men's and women's employment to the underachievement of women and the limited impact of equal pay legislation. Studies of occupational segregation by gender tend to be polarized between qualitative and quantitative extremes. At the quantitative end, a primary focus of research h…
Socioeconomic and Political Initiators of Pay Comparison
Systems of Production: Markets, Organisations and Performance
Frank Wilkinson’s classic piece on ‘Productive Systems’ opens with a warning against the ‘increasingly dogmatic reassertion by a growing proportion of economists of the beneficial effects of the invisible hand of market forces’. These reassertions, Wilkinson argues, ‘are based not on a careful examination of how economies actually work and have developed but on abstract, a priori reasoning about how they should operate’ (Wilkinson, 1983, p. 413).…
Anglais, encore un effort: L'intensité du travail au Royaume-Uni
Dans sa première partie cet article analyse les essais de quantification des changements dans l'intensification du travail au Royaume-Uni au cours des 40 dernières années. L'auteur passe en revue un certain nombre de méthodologies, cet examen critique mène à la conclusion que les résultats les plus fiables reposent sur des observations transversales et répétées. Ce qui en ressort est une augmentation nettement marquée de l'intensité du travail au…
Distributed work: Communication in an ‘officeless firm’
This paper describes and analyses an ‘officeless firm’, where all employees work from their own homes. Drawing upon observations and interviews, the modes of communication and the nature of the interpersonal relationships that have permitted this organisation to succeed are described, along with the challenges that face this organisation in the future as it attempts to grow
Flexicurity as a moderator of the relationship between job insecurity and psychological well-being
Flexicurity has been heralded as the solution to simultaneously maintain the well-being of employees through employment security while allowing employers to benefit from flexibility. This paper examines one of the claimed benefits that countries with flexicurity policies will reduce the stress on employees who experience job insecurity. More specifically, it is argued that more generous unemployment benefits along with active labour market polici…
A Temporal Comparison of the Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on Wellbeing
Analyses of individuals' working lives make a variety of assumptions about the relationship between time, wellbeing and economic stress. Some assume that stress will accumulate in adverse environments, leading to chronic effects of, for instance, long-term unemployment or job insecurity. Other studies emphasize the acute effects of changes per se, and assume adaptation. This paper examines how employees respond both to acute and chronic job insec…
The role of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion in occupational gender segregation: A Cross-National Analysis
Studies have linked cross-national variations in occupational gender segregation with various economic, social and normative characteristics of countries. This study contributes to the research on the role of normative or 'cultural' characteristics by examining the influence of the level of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion on cross-national variations in occupational gender segregation. The analysis is based on a sam…
The quality of employment and decent work: Definitions, methodologies, and ongoing debates
This article explores the development of concepts related to the ‘quality of employment’ in the academic literature in terms of their definition, methodological progress and ongoing policy debates. Over time, these concepts have evolved from simple studies of job satisfaction towards more comprehensive measures of job and employment quality, including the International Labour Organization’s concept of ‘Decent Work’ launched in 1999. This article …
Equal Pay as a Moving Target: International perspectives on forty-years of addressing the gender pay gap
This paper provides an overview of the key factors impacting upon the gender pay gap in the UK, Europe and Australia. Forty years after the implementation of the first equal pay legislation, the pay gap remains a key aspect of the inequalities women face in the labour market. While the overall pay gap has tended to fall in many countries over the past forty years, it has not closed; in some countries it has been stubbornly resistant, or has even …
Human Development and Decent Work: Why some Concepts Succeed and Others Fail to Make an Impact
This article examines the impact of the International Labour Organization's concept of Decent Work on development thinking and the academic literature. We attempt to answer the question of what makes a development initiative successful by comparing the decent work approach to the United Nation Development Programme's Human Development concept (in conjunction with the human development indicator). We consider that the latter has been one of the mo…
A cross-national comparative study of work demands/support, work-to-family conflict and job outcomes: Ghana versus the United Kingdom
This study compared relations between work demands and support, work-to-family conflict (WFC) and job outcomes in Ghana and the United Kingdom. Data were obtained from 217 Ghanaian employees and 198 British employees using structured questionnaires. Results from multigroup structural equation modelling analyses showed that job pressure was positively related to WFC in Ghana and the United Kingdom, whereas supervisor support was negatively related…
The Experience of Self-Employment Among Young People: An Exploratory Analysis of 28 Low- to Middle-Income Countries
Youth unemployment has become the global "wicked" policy issue for governments and multilateral agencies with many regions experiencing endemically high levels. In response, governments and international organizations have introduced more active labor market interventions to address youth unemployment. Self-employment and entrepreneurship programs are seen as the key mechanisms to reduce unemployment, welfare dependency, and poverty. We use the I…
A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being
Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working
Existing urban research has focused on gender differences in commuting patterns to and from homes, but has paid little attention to the gendered diversity in the spatiotemporal patterns of work. The increase in remote working and information and communications technology (ICT) work has been emphasised, but at the cost of exploring the full range of workplaces and multi-locational working observed in urban areas. This article develops a new classi…
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
This article makes a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of why people in the United Kingdom without childcare responsibilities actively reduce or limit the amount of time they spend in paid employment. We show how the negative aspects of employment (push factors) and the desire to spend time in more varied and enjoyable ways (pull factors) interact to produce decisions to enact working time reductions (WTRs). The push factors…
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom
Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), which form important components of employment support policies around the world, have been found to improve mental health and wellbeing of participants. However, it remains unclear how these health effects compare with the effects of different types of employment for men and women. Using 1991-2019 panel data in the UK, we find that unemployed women derive similar mental health benefits from ALMPs compared …
Does public space have to be green to improve well-being? An analysis of public space across Greater London and its association to subjective well-being
Urban public space has been associated with increased physical activity, social interaction, neighbourhood cohesion and subjective well-being. Yet, the vast majority of literature focuses on green and blue space, excluding the potential therapeutic value of “hard-surfaced” public space, such as a civic or market square. Therefore, for the first time in the public space literature, we quantify hard-surfaced public space's variation across a major …
Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: Why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing
Alienation Is Not 'Bullshit: An Empirical Critique of Graeber's Theory of BS Jobs
David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs theory' has generated a great deal of academic and public interest. This theory holds that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise as being useless and of no social value. Despite generating clear testable hypotheses, this theory is not based on robust empirical research. We, therefore, use representative data from the EU to test five of its core hypothese…
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers' Mental Health at the Onset of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
Although reduced working time and furlough policy initiatives are widely regarded as important for economic and business reasons, little is known about their impacts on workers' mental health at the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Panel Study data from 2018 to February 2020 and April 2020 and change score analysis, this study aims to compare mental health changes between those who worked reduced hours, we…
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