Constraints on the Desired Hours of Work of British Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9710265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark B Stewart (University of Warwick), Joanna K Swaffield (University of Warwick) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 441 |
| Pages | 520-535 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0297.00175 |
| OpenAlex | W3122512980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
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
British Household Panel Survey · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Function (biology · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Operations management · Scarcity · Set (abstract data type · Unemployment · Wage · Work (physics · Work hours · Working hours · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mechanical Engineering · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,96 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |