Measuring hours worked in Germany – Contents, data and methodological essentials of the IAB working time measurement concept
| Autor: | Ines Zapf, Roland Weigand, Susanne Wanger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Working hours
jel:C82 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Economics and Econometrics Labour economics 01 natural sciences jel:E01 German 010104 statistics & probability 0502 economics and business ddc:330 Economics IAB-Arbeitszeitrechnung - Methode Product (category theory) 050207 economics 0101 mathematics Scope (project management) National accounts 05 social sciences Working time language.human_language C82 Arbeitszeit jel:J2 IAB-Arbeitszeitrechnung - Methode Arbeitszeit Arbeitsvolumen Work (electrical) J2 Human resource management Industrial relations language Arbeitsvolumen E01 |
| Zdroj: | Journal for Labour Market Research. 49:213-238 |
| ISSN: | 1867-8343 1614-3485 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12651-016-0206-0 |
| Popis: | This article presents the Working Time Measurement Concept of the Institute for Employment Research, which determines the hours worked in Germany and their individual components. The Working Time Measurement Concept is the key data product on working time in Germany and underlies the German national accounts figure on labour input. These statistics on hours worked are essential for a proper analysis of aggregate labour market trends and cyclical fluctuations. In the Working Time Measurement Concept, changes in working hours due to collective agreements and economic fluctuations are brought together with shifts in employment structure, thus producing a differentiated picture of the scope, structure and development of the annual working time of gainfully employed persons. We outline the conceptual and methodological framework of the measurement, which continually evolves due to its integration in the system of national accounts and due to innovations to the statistical procedures applied. An overview of single components and their data sources is given, while the resulting time series of hours worked and the volume of work are depicted according to their long run trends, cyclical variation and reaction in the 2008/09 financial and economic crisis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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