Distribution of working-time accounts and its establishment-specific determinants

Abstract

"Working time accounts offer variable distributions of hours worked in establishments. Using working time accounts establishments can absorb demand fluctuations and hence adjust the work effort to the workload. During the financial and economic crisis of 2008/09 establishments used working time accounts to reduce working hours temporarily. Against this background working time accounts regained importance in the public and scientific discussion as an instrument of working time flexibility. For this reason the question of the determinants of working time accounts arises. Using data from the establishment panel of the Institute for Employment Research and using logistic and OLS regression models the determinants of working time accounts in establishments and of its distribution among employees were examined. The analyses show that industrial relations factors are important to determine working time accounts in establishments. An increasing share of agency workers and of qualified employees also increases the probability of working time accounts, whereas an increasing share of employees with fixed term contracts decreases the probability. The distribution among employees is positively associated with a works council as well as the share of agency workers, it is negatively associated with the share of employees with fixed term contracts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Zapf, I. (2018): Verbreitung und betriebliche Bestimmungsfaktoren von Arbeitszeitkonten. In: Industrielle Beziehungen, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 51-71., accepted on December 04, 2017. DOI:10.3224/indbez.v25i1.03